Getting started with Selenium on Python in Windows environment

INSTALL Selenium module for Python

## Assuming that you already have Python 3 installed



            

            C:\windows\system32> pip install selenium

DOWNLOAD Webdrivers

## Download the webdriver for the required browsers to automate

Browser	Download URL	webdriver .exe name
Chrome	[OLD] https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads [NEW] https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/	chromedriver.exe
Edge	https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/
Firefox	https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases	geckodriver.exe
Safari	https://webkit.org/blog/6900/webdriver-support-in-safari-10/

## 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"

TEST RUN

## create a test python script browser.py as follows and execute

c:\scripts\browse.py

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)

## 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()

DISCOVERING THE Selenium API



            ## launch Python intepreter and then

>>> import selenium
>>> help('selenium.webdriver.Firefox')

REFERENCES

https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/py/api.html