Selenium Scripts are built to do some tedious tasks which can be automated using headless web browsers.
This download comes as a ZIP file named 'selenium-3.14.0.zip'. For simplicity, extract the contents of this ZIP file on your C drive so that you would have the directory 'C: selenium-3.14.0 '. This directory contains all the JAR files that we would later import on Eclipse. When you download a file using dockerized selenium grid, It downloads and keeps the downloaded file inside the container. The outside world which is your machine/any remote machine running docker will not have any information on it. In this picture, Java testng/junit tests running on your host, use the dockerized selenium grid. Selenium IDE is a Chrome and Firefox plugin which records and plays back user interactions with the browser. Use this to either create simple scripts or assist in exploratory testing. Download latest released version for Chrome or for Firefox or view the Release Notes. Download previous IDE versions here.
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
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
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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:-
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:-
Creating Simple Code
# selenium
driver =webdriver.Firefox()
Output:
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