You may only have a couple of items in there to start.

To view the currently installed packages you can type 'pip list' with out the quotes and press enter. This allows us to use Selenium with Python. If you see the version printed on the screen, congratulations you have officially installed Python on your machine! For the next part we need to install selenium with the Python package installer called 'PIP'. You should see something like this below. Open a command prompt of your choice (e.x.CMD, Powershell) and type 'python -version' with out the quotes and hit enter. When you see 'x86' it means it is for 32bit OS as well.Īfter the install lets confirm that we have Python set up and it is set in the environment path for our system. FYI the download is for both 32bit and 64bit Windows OS. This allows Python to be executed from anywhere on your machine.

The main thing you need to pay attention to during the install is checking the box to add python to your environment path! Make sure to check this box during the install. You can use a different version if you want but during the time of this post I will be using 3.7.0.īelow is a screen shot of the one that I selected as it will guide you through the install process. Ill paste the direct URL but you can also just Google python download for windows or something similar. We will need at least three things to get started.

Let's just dive right in and get the necessary tools if you will to make a simple Python script with Selenium. Python is a very powerful and lightweight computer programming language that can be used for creating many things but today were going to use it to write code to interact with the Selenium library. For those of you who are not familiar with either, Selenium Webdriver allows us to interact with web browsers to automate the manual process of web interactions. In this post I will be demonstrating how to set up and use Selenium Webdriver with python 3 on Windows 10. Very basic script of opening the Chrome browser and navigating to a web page.Setting up the Chrome driver and adding it to the environment path.Installing and setting up Selenium Webdriver and Python 3.Some coding experience with Python is a plus but not needed.Familiar using and navigating the command line (CMD or Powershell).Knowledge extracting files from zipped folders.

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