This can be quite tricky to get right, if you are new to selenium I recommend the course below.īrowser Automation with Python Selenium - Novice to Ninja Install selenium To use use selenium, you need both the selenium module and the web driver installed. 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. Let me know in comments if this solution worked for you.Selenium is a web automation tool. So now that we have some browser automation going, I will post more results and scripts such as logging into web forms using automated Selenium scripts when I find time. At this point, we can get this Python script to open a webpage for us: from selenium import webdriverįrom \_binary import FirefoxBinary Of course, you need to ensure that paths are correct pertaining to your system and where you downloaded and unzipped Firefox. So now we point Selenium to use this latest binary of Firefox instead: from \_binary import FirefoxBinaryīinary = FirefoxBinary('/root/Downloads/firefox/firefox')ĭriver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox\_binary=binary) I do have the latest version of Firefox downloaded and unzipped. The problem here is that the latest version of Selenium that we installed cannot interface with the older version of Firefox that comes bundled with Kali Linux. Now we are faced with a new error: : Message: connection refused Unpack the archive and make the geckodriver executable and copy it so that Python can find it: chmod +x cp Downloads/geckodriver /usr/local/bin I grabbed Linu圆4 bit version since I am running Kali Linux 64 bit. To resolve this, we need to install geckodriver. It fails saying: webdriverexception: geckodriver executable needs to be in path. What does not work is following test code: browser = webdriver.Firefox() Test it by going to the Python command line and importing the module: from selenium import webdriver This should install the latest version of Selenium module. This is simply: apt-get install python-pip Installing Seleniumįirst, we need to install the Selenium module in Python using pip install.
So I resolved them one at a time and I am logging the procedure here. I decided to test it on Kali Linux and faced certain issues. Selenium seems to be great for browser automation and has support for multiple programming languages, including my favorite – Python.
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