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Web Scraping Using Selenium Python

Detailed Tutorial With One Project

Web Scraping is an essential skill for all data scientists and automation engineers around the world. It is the process of scraping data from the web. The data can be in the form of text, links, tables, or images. In general, you can only scrape static data from the web. Here Come the role of selenium.

Selenium is a python library that can scrape dynamic web easily. It is used also used for web automation & testing. Scraping data from the web is a small part of its library. Let’s See Some of the features of this library.

Features:-

• Easy to read & code,
• Open Source,
• Fast In Execution,
• Can run tests across different browsers,
• Automates Browser Easily,
• Beginners Friendly

Installation: pip install selenium

Basic Code —

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver')
driver.get('facebook.com')

Key Components of Selenium —

1. Web Driver

Web Driver is an automated tool that helps test web apps across different browsers. It…