Selenium

Links

• Selenium doc

• Selenium with Python

• Webdriver Manager for Python

Options and commands

• install: pip install selenium

• implicit wait

  • tells WebDriver to poll DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to find any element

  • driver.implicitly_wait(10)

  • also see Implicit Waits

Examples

Minimal:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://selenium.dev")
print(driver.title)
driver.quit()

Minimal headless:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import ChromeOptions
options = ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless=new")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get("http://selenium.dev")
print(driver.title)