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Setting up python Selenium via terminal (BASH)

The easiest way is to use pip and VirtualEnv. Selenium also requires python 3.*.

Install virtualenv using:

$: pip install virtualenv
 

Create/enter a directory for your Selenium files:

$: cd my_selenium_project
 

Create a new VirtualEnv in the directory for your Selenium files:

$: virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.0 venv
 

Activate the VirtualEnv:

$: source venv/bin/active
 

You should see now see (venv) at the beginning of each bash line. Install Selenium using pip:

$: pip install selenium
 

Selenium comes with the FireFox driver by default.
If you want to run Selenium in google chrome, also do this:

$: pip install chromedriver
 

You now have a version-controlled VirtualEnv. To make sure everything is set up correctly:

Start python:

$: python
 

Prints out:

Python 2.7.10 (default, Jul 14 2015, 19:46:27) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.39)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 

Create a new webdriver (in this case, a chromedriver), and go to www.google.com:

>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> driver = webdriver.Chrome()
>>> driver.get("https://www.google.com")
 

Close the driver and python interpreter:

>>> driver.quit()
>>> quit()
 

Deactivate the VirtualEnv:

$: deactivate
 

If the line driver = webdriver.Chrome() is throwing errors:

• Make sure you also have the chrome browser installed. If you don't, the Selenium chromedriver can not access the Chrome binary.
• webdriver.Chrome() can also take a parameter for your chromedriver location. If you installed it using pip, try (on mac) driver = webdriver.Chrome("./venv/selenium/webdriver/chromedriver") .

Simple Selenium Example in C#

//Create a new ChromeDriver
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

//Navigate to www.google.com
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.google.com");

//Find the WebElement of the search bar
IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.Name("q"));

//Type Hello World into search bar
element.SendKeys("Hello World");

//Submit the input
element.Submit();

//Close the browser
driver.Quit();
 

Simple Selenium test in Java

Below code is simple java program using selenium. The journey of the below code is

1. Open Firefox browser
2. Open google page
3. Print title of Google page
4. Find the search box location
5. Pass the value as Selenium in the search box
6. Submit the form
7. Shutdown the browser

package org.openqa.selenium.example;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class Selenium2Example  {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        // An implicit wait is to tell WebDriver to poll the DOM for a certain amount of time 
        // when trying to find an element or elements if they are not immediately available. 
        // The default setting is 0. Once set, the implicit wait is set for the life of the WebDriver object instance.   
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        // Maximize the browser window to fit into screen
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        
        // Visit Google
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");

        // Check the title of the page
        System.out.println("Page title is: " + driver.getTitle());

        // Find the text input element by its name
        WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

        // Enter something to search for
        element.sendKeys("Selenium!");

        // Now submit the form. WebDriver will find the form for us from the element
        element.submit();

        //Close the browser
        driver.quit();
    }
}
 

Simple selenium test in python

from selenium import webdriver

# Create a new chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# Go to www.google.com
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

# Get the webelement of the text input box
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name("q")

# Send the string "Selenium!" to the input box
seach_box.send_keys("Selenium!")

# Submit the input, which starts a search
search_box.submit()

# Wait to see the results of the search
time.sleep(5)

# Close the driver
driver.quit()