Selenium Documentation
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Selenium Web Driver is a framework often used for automated web application testing. It uses an API to launch a web browser and browse sites from the client's perspective. Popular Selenium bindings exist for Python, Java, Javascript, and other languages. This documentation covers Selenium Web Driver using Python3.
Installation
A full list of installation documentation can be found here.
This documentation assumes you have Python 3.6 or later installed. If you do not, visit the Python Download page.
From the command line, enter
pip install selenium
The Basics
A folder with tutorial code can be found on the RDP in:
E:\McNair\Software\Selenium Tutorial
Launching a Driver
The first step is to launch a driver. This is an object that has information on the current page including its url and web elements, and is the object you interact with to do any sort of navigation. First, import the webdriver:
from selenium import webdriver
