Selenium comes to the rescue here by automating the browser to visit the site and run the client-side scripts giving you the required HTML. There are many other cases for using Selenium. Before you begin you need to download the driver for your particular browser. This article is written using chrome. Head on to the following URL to download the chrome driver to use with selenium by clicking here.
The next step is to install the necessary Selenium python packages to your environment. It can be done using the following pip command:. To begin using selenium, you need to instantiate a selenium webdriver. This class will then control the web browser and you can take various actions as if you were the one navigating the browser such as navigating to a URL or clicking on a button.
First, import the necessary modules and instantiate a selenium webdriver. You need to provide the path to the chromedriver. After executing the command, a new browser window will open up specifying that it is being controlled by automated testing software. In some cases, you get an error when chrome opens and needs to disable the extensions to remove the error message. To pass options to chrome when starting it, use the following code.
What do you do on google? You search! First, you need to learn how to locate items. Selenium provides many options to do so. You can find web elements by ID, Name, Text and many others. Read on here to get the full list. We will be locating the textbox by name. If you want to read more, please visit bugs. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
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