I will focus on the Chrome driver, which I have experience with. Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser: Firefox requires 'geckodriver', while Chrome requires 'Chromedriver'. Of course, to get started, I have to activate that environment and then 'pip install' the selenium package. This gives me a virtual environment for any Selenium-related work I have to do.

To create my environment, I could do: pyenv virtualenv 3.6.5 env_selenium

In my case, as discussed in previous posts, I currently use 'Pyenv' to manage multiple Python installations, including virtual environments. You need the Python 'selenium' package, which you can install by doing pip install selenium.Įven better, use 'virtualenv' to create isolated Python environments. Installation step 1: Python bindings for Selenium We will go through the installation steps and start with a couple of examples. This article starts a series where we are going to discuss how to use Selenium, from Python, for automating website navigation and doing visual data scraping.

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