Using Selenium WebDriver

Selenium is used for browser automation, and one of its major components, WebDriver, is the core tool to access browsers. WebDriver implements code logic for selected browsers that is required during automation. It’s also the core system that binds the Selenium framework with the browser and often gets called or referred to as Selenium driver or only driver. For more detailed information, visit this link: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/getting_started/.

Before going deep into the automation or using the framework, let’s install the required libraries in the next section.

Setting things up

To explore browser automation using Python and Selenium WebDriver, first, we need to install the selenium library (a Python library), and browser-related drivers.

Important note

Selenium is a framework that contains various components such as WebDriver and others, whereas selenium is a Python library (https://www.selenium.dev...