Selenium in Python

Selenium in python is used for browser automation. We need to install chromium webdriver also for automating chrome. In python jupyter notebook first we need to install selenium as given below

pip install selenium
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(location of chromium webdriver)
driver.get("website you want to open")

there are 8 types of locators in selenium.

XPATH

we can copy xpath as given below

• First Inspect webpage
• Right click and click on copy
• then copy XPATH and xpath will be copied.

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
create = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "xpath of element")
create.click()

CLASS NAME

Similarly element can be located by class name & value can be found by inspecting web pages as shown below

below code will find element by class_name and click on it.

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
create = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME,"class")
create.click()

CSS_SELECTOR

ep=driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR,"span[title='Export page']")
ep.click()

LINK TEXT

We can find elements by text associated with a link. Downloads, about community are the link text as shown in below image.

x=driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT,"Downloads")
x.click()

Above code will click on download section of website.

ID

Elements can be located by id by inspecting webpage.

x=driver.find_element(By.ID,"resolved")
x.click()

NAME

We can locate elements by name attribute present on webpage

x=driver.find_element(By.NAME,"resolved")
x.click()