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======================
Selenium Client Driver
======================
Introduction
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Python language bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
The `selenium` package is used to automate web browser interaction from Python.
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| **Home**: | http://www.seleniumhq.org |
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| **Docs**: | `selenium package API <https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/py/api.html>`_ |
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| **Dev**: | https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/Selenium |
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| **PyPI**: | https://pypi.org/project/selenium/ |
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| **IRC**: | **#selenium** channel on freenode |
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Several browsers/drivers are supported (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer), as well as the Remote protocol.
Supported Python Versions
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* Python 2.7, 3.4+
Installing
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If you have `pip <https://pip.pypa.io/>`_ on your system, you can simply install or upgrade the Python bindings::
pip install -U selenium
Alternately, you can download the source distribution from `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/selenium/#files>`_ (e.g. selenium-4.0.0a1.tar.gz), unarchive it, and run::
python setup.py install
Note: You may want to consider using `virtualenv <http://www.virtualenv.org/>`_ to create isolated Python environments.
Drivers
=======
Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. Firefox,
for example, requires `geckodriver <https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases>`_, which needs to be installed before the below examples can be run. Make sure it's in your `PATH`, e. g., place it in `/usr/bin` or `/usr/local/bin`.
Failure to observe this step will give you an error `selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.`
Other supported browsers will have their own drivers available. Links to some of the more popular browser drivers follow.
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| **Chrome**: | https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads |
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| **Edge**: | https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/ |
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| **Firefox**: | https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases |
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| **Safari**: | https://webkit.org/blog/6900/webdriver-support-in-safari-10/ |
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Example 0:
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* open a new Firefox browser
* load the page at the given URL
.. code-block:: python
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://seleniumhq.org/')
Example 1:
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* open a new Firefox browser
* load the Yahoo homepage
* search for "seleniumhq"
* close the browser
.. code-block:: python
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.yahoo.com')
assert 'Yahoo' in browser.title
elem = browser.find_element_by_name('p') # Find the search box
elem.send_keys('seleniumhq' + Keys.RETURN)
browser.quit()
Example 2:
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Selenium WebDriver is often used as a basis for testing web applications. Here is a simple example using Python's standard `unittest <http://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html>`_ library:
.. code-block:: python
import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
class GoogleTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.browser = webdriver.Firefox()
self.addCleanup(self.browser.quit)
def testPageTitle(self):
self.browser.get('http://www.google.com')
self.assertIn('Google', self.browser.title)
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main(verbosity=2)
Selenium Server (optional)
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For normal WebDriver scripts (non-Remote), the Java server is not needed.
However, to use Selenium Webdriver Remote or the legacy Selenium API (Selenium-RC), you need to also run the Selenium server. The server requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Download the server separately, from: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/4.0/selenium-server-standalone-4.0.0.jar
Run the server from the command line::
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.141.0.jar
Then run your Python client scripts.
Use The Source Luke!
====================
View source code online:
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| official: | https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/tree/master/py |
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