How To Download Selenium On Mac

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.

To use use selenium, you need both the selenium module and the web driver installed. This can be quite tricky to get right, if you are new to selenium I recommend the course below.

Additionally, you can download one easily from its official site and set it up for java programming. Moreover, to learn about Eclipse and its setup, read our previous tutorial on the same: Download and Install Eclipse. Selenium: Latest version of the Selenium WebDriver will be required for setup. However, you can use any of the latest stable. Selenium IDE is available for firefox so install firefox and install IDE as a browser plugin. I personally use Mac for all sorts of QA and development activities and deploy and run application on linux and windows platform, it does not really matt.

Selenium is the all-in-one research application for your Mac. Whether you're a student, professional researcher, or just someone with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, Selenium is for you. Selenium provides its API implementation in multiple programming languages. However, Selenium API Java-based bindings are the most popular. In this tutorial, we will learn how to download Selenium JARs and configure Eclipse IDE to use them in writing test scripts.

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Install selenium

To get started, first you should setup a virtual environment. Once that’s setup and activated, you want to install the selenium module inside it. You can do that by typing the command:

This will install the selenium module, but that’s not all yet. You need to install the driver.

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

How To Download Selenium On Mac
  • ChromeDriver
  • FirefoxDriver
  • RemoteWebDriver
  • EdgeDriver
  • IEDriver
  • SafariDriver
  • OperaDriver

Selenium Example

Depending on which driver you install, you can load a different browser. If you use Chrome, you could do this:

For the Firefox driver, initialize like this:

This also works for Edge

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

Save the program as example.py and run it with

If everything went right, it will start the Chromium browser and open the python site.

Selenium will start the chromium browser automatically

Selenium Scripts are built to do some tedious tasks which can be automated using headless web browsers.

For example, Searching for some Questions on Different Search engines and storing results in a file by visiting each link. This task can take a long for a normal human being but with the help of selenium scripts one can easily do it

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Now, Some of You may be wondering what is headless web browsers. It’s nothing but a browser that can be controlled using these selenium scripts for automation(web tasks). Selenium Scripts can be programmed using various languages such as JavaScript, Java, Python, etc.

How to Use selenium with Python and Linux Environment.

Python should already be installed. It can be 2.* or 3.* version.
Steps:


  1. Installing Selenium
  2. Installing Webdrivers (headless)
  3. Creating Simple Code

Installing Selenium

Whatever Operating System You are Using Python command is Same for Installing Selenium Library.

First Method

Open Terminal/Cmd and Write Command as written Below

Second Method

Alternatively, you can download the source distribution here, unarchive it, and run the command below:

Installing Webdrivers

One Can Install Firefox, Chromium, PhantomJs(Deprecated Now), etc.

  • for using Firefox you may need to install GeckoDriver
  • for using Chrome you may need to install Chromium

In this article, Firefox is used so One can Follow the Bellow Steps to Install:-

Steps for Linux:-



Selenium

1. Go to the geckodriver releases page. Find the latest version of the driver for your platform and download it.

For example:

2. Extract the file with:

3. Make it executable:

4. Move Files to usr/local/bin

Steps for Windows:-

1. Same as Step 1 in Linux Download the GeckoDriver

2. Extract it using WinRar or any application you may have.

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3. Add it to Path using Command Prompt

For Example:-

Creating Simple Code

# selenium
driver =webdriver.Firefox()

Output:

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