Install Selenium Python In Ubuntu For Automation

Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. Through Selenium Python API you can access all functionalities of Selenium WebDriver in an intuitive way.

Selenium Python bindings provide a convenient API to access Selenium WebDrivers like Firefox, Ie, Chrome, Remote etc. The current supported Python versions are 2.7, 3.5 and above.

Install Selenium Python

1. Install the latest stable version of Firefox:

sudo apt install firefox

2. Update

sudo apt-get update

3. Install Selenium
For Python2:

sudo pip install selenium

For Python3:

sudo pip3 install selenium

4. Check the latest release of Geckodriver on the releases page and download it

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.24.0/geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux64.tar.gz

5. Extract the archive and move the executable to a location in your PATH:

tar -xvf geckodriver-v0.19.1-linux64.tar.gz

sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/

Code test Selenium Python

Run python first:

python3

Code test:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import re

import pandas as pd

from tabulate import tabulate

import os

import time

import csv

import random

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


driver = webdriver.Firefox()

driver.implicitly_wait(30)

url= 'vuinghichweb.blogspot.com'

driver.get(url)

driver.quit()

Have fun!