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What is Selenium?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Selenium is an open-source web automation framework that can be used to automate web browser interactions. It is primarily used for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. It can also be used for web scraping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is Python?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object-oriented scripting language. Python is designed to be highly readable. It uses English keywords frequently where as other languages use punctuation, and it has fewer syntactical constructions than other languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selenium with Python can be used to automate web browser interactions. With Selenium, We can write test scripts in Python code to open a web browser, navigate to a page, and interact with elements on the page. We can also use Python to scrape data from web pages. Selenium has a set of methods that can be used to select and interact with elements on web pages.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Install Python using APT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
APT, or Advanced Package Tool is the default package manager that we will find on Ubuntu. We can download the Python package from the official Ubuntu repository. Here’s how to do it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.Open up terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2.Update our local system’s repository list by entering the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo apt update<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
3.Download the latest version of Python<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo apt install python3<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
4.Check the version of Python.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ python --version<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Output-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Python 2.7.18<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Install pip<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.Install pip<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ sudo apt install python3-pip<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2.Check the version of pip<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ pip3 --version<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Output-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pip 20.0.2 from \/usr\/lib\/python3\/dist-packages\/pip (python 3.8)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Install Selenium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Step – 1 :- Install Selenium in Python<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Run the python command to get started. If we are using an IDE, simply create a new Python file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Use the \u201cpip\u201d command in our terminal to install the Selenium package for Python.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$ pip install selenium<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step – 2 :-<\/strong> Download web driver<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selenium works with all major browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Edge. We are using Chrome for this tutorial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Check the web browser version we are using before downloading the web driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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