Let’s save this and move over to the terminal. # Open provided link in a browser window using the driver Here is a basic script to get up and running with selenium: from selenium import webdriver
We can now go ahead and create a python script that utilizes it. When the installation is done, we can check the version of chrome driver by running the following command on the terminal: chromedriver -versionĪt the time of writing, the latest version of chromedriver installed by homebrew is version. We do this by executing the following command on the terminal: brew cask install chromedriver Once we’ve installed selenium, it’s time to install the chromedriver using homebrew. We can do this by running the following command on the terminal: pip install selenium You can learn more about homebrew and how to install it here. Homebrew is a package manager that installs packages in their own directory and then symlinks them in “usr/local”. Code documentation on selenium-python can be found here. I won’t go into too much detail about selenium in this post in order to keep it short. I doubt you need much of an introduction to python, selenium is a framework that facilitates browser automation. In my first project, my chosen tools were python, selenium, and homebrew.
I’ve been working on some web crawling projects recently.
