Links to some of the more popular browser drivers follow.įrom selenium import webdriver browser = webdriver. Other supported browsers will have their own drivers available. g., place it in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.įailure to observe this step will give you an error : Message: ‘geckodriver’ executable needs to be in PATH. Firefox,įor example, requires geckodriver, which needs to be installed before the below examples can be run. Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. Note: You may want to consider using virtualenv to create isolated Python environments.

selenium-4.8.3.tar.gz), unarchive it, and run: python setup.py install If you have pip on your system, you can simply install or upgrade the Python bindings: pip install -U seleniumĪlternately, you can download the source distribution from PyPI (e.g. Several browsers/drivers are supported (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer), as well as the Remote protocol. The selenium package is used to automate web browser interaction from Python.

Python language bindings for Selenium WebDriver.

Pip update