Selenium

Selenium is a roof project that houses a variety of tools and libraries that enable web browser automation. The project provides infrastructure for the W3C WebDriver specification, a platform and language independent coding interface compatible with all major web browsers. Thanks to this infrastructure developed by volunteer contributors, you can automatically route web browsers.

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SeleniumHQ · Web Scraping & Automation

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VERSIONselenium-4.9.2-javascript
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Web ScrapingBrowser AutomationTestingPythonApache-2.0

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What can it do?
  • W3C WebDriver specification provides automation in all major web browsers with compatible infrastructure
  • You write browser tests with Java, Python, C#, Ruby and JavaScript client libraries
  • With Selenium Grid, you run tests parallel to multiple machines
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator

    “Also, as someone on the periphery of Selenium (mostly via WebDriver), some of the challenge is that Selenium has a huge amount of test code already written for it — and making radical API changes would break every test already written for it, and at that point you’re effectively…”

  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator

    “The good old days of browser automation! Thanks a lot for Selenium and all the best for Vibium :)”

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