Selenium is a web automation tool. A web browser can be controlled using Python code, any task you would normally do on the web can be done using the selenium module.

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Installation To install the selenium module, type the command:

pip install -U selenium

Then get the web driver from https://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver. There are all kind of webdrivers including:

• ChromeDriver
• FirefoxDriver
• RemoteWebDriver

After installation of the web driver, we can make Python start the browser using:

from selenium import webdriver
import time
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
options.add_argument("--test-type")
options.binary_location = "/usr/bin/chromium"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get('https://python.org')

This will start the Chromium browser and open the python site. Selenium will start the chromium browser automatically