Selenium Download Mac

Posted on 20-04-2021 by admin

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Selenium Scripts are built to do some tedious tasks which can be automated using headless web browsers.

For example, Searching for some Questions on Different Search engines and storing results in a file by visiting each link. This task can take a long for a normal human being but with the help of selenium scripts one can easily do it

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Now, Some of You may be wondering what is headless web browsers. It’s nothing but a browser that can be controlled using these selenium scripts for automation(web tasks). Selenium Scripts can be programmed using various languages such as JavaScript, Java, Python, etc.

How to Use selenium with Python and Linux Environment.

Python should already be installed. It can be 2.* or 3.* version.
Steps:

Installing Selenium
Installing Webdrivers (headless)
Creating Simple Code

Installing Selenium

Whatever Operating System You are Using Python command is Same for Installing Selenium Library.

First Method

Open Terminal/Cmd and Write Command as written Below

Second Method

Alternatively, you can download the source distribution here, unarchive it, and run the command below:

Installing Webdrivers

One Can Install Firefox, Chromium, PhantomJs(Deprecated Now), etc.

for using Firefox you may need to install GeckoDriver
for using Chrome you may need to install Chromium

In this article, Firefox is used so One can Follow the Bellow Steps to Install:-

Install Selenium Mac

Steps for Linux:-

1. Go to the geckodriver releases page. Find the latest version of the driver for your platform and download it.

For example:

2. Extract the file with:

3. Make it executable:

4. Move Files to usr/local/bin

Steps for Windows:-

1. Same as Step 1 in Linux Download the GeckoDriver

2. Extract it using WinRar or any application you may have.

3. Add it to Path using Command Prompt

For Example:-

How To Download Selenium

Creating Simple Code

# selenium

driver =webdriver.Firefox()

Output:

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