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Selenium is a web automation framework that can be used to automate website testing. Because Selenium starts a webbrowser, it can do any task you would normally do on the web.

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Generally, a download manager enables downloading of large files or multiples files in one session. Many web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 9, include a download manager.

Related course
Browser Automation with Python Selenium

Web Driver

To start a web browser, the Selenium module needs a web driver. Python interacts with the selenium web driver and the web driver interacts with the browser.

Supported browsers are:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Internet Explorer
  • Safari
  • Opera
  • PhantomJS (invisible)
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To start a browser, you will need to corresponding web driver. The driver 'ChromeDriver' is needed to start Chrome, 'FirefoxDriver' for Firefox.
All drivers can be downloaded from: https://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/

Example code
Python will start and control the chromium browser using the code below:

You can change the browser by creating a different instance:

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The first two lines in the above code will open the browser on the same computer, the others lines open the browser remotely: on a phone.

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Then open a webpage using the get() method:





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