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INSTALL Selenium module for Python
## Assuming that you already have Python 3 installed
C:\windows\system32> pip install selenium
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DOWNLOAD Webdrivers
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## Download the webdriver for the required browsers to automate
## Unzip these drivers and place the .exe file into a folder that is Windows PATH for all users
e.g. if C:\Python3 is already in PATH, copy the webdriver .exe into c:\python3
e.g. if not, put into a folder such as c:\webdriver and then open a command prompt as administrator and
C:\windows\system32> SETX /M PATH "%PATH%;C:\webdriver"
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TEST RUN
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## create a test python script browser.py as follows and execute
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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
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## It should launch Chrome browser and then load the URL and enter "pycon" into the search box and press Return
## to close the Chrome browser automatically add to the bottom of the script
driver.close()
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DISCOVERING THE Selenium API
## launch Python intepreter and then
>>> import selenium
>>> help('selenium.webdriver.Firefox')
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REFERENCES
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