Selenium Introduction and Installation

Selenium Introduction

Selenium provides a more convenient web crawler technology, according to the current experience of oranges, Selenium has the following features:

1. Open Source, free
2. Simple, is an oo way, easy to get started.
3. Adapt to network coding changes. Compared to the Urllib library, because the Urllib on the page is HTML format, extract useful information to be filtered through the RE, the site code changes slightly, re-regular expression will also change accordingly. And selenium is more adaptable.

It is currently popular for browsers such as Firefox, IE, Chrome, remote, and so on. Currently supported versions of Selenium include 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4

Selenium Installation

There are a variety of installation options, here is a simple installation method, that is, the installation via PIP

Pip Install Selenium

Selenium Reference Address

Home:
http://www.seleniumhq.org

Get Start

https://selenium-python.readthedocs.org/

Docs:

Http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/py/index.html
Selenium Package API

Dev:
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/

PyPI:
Https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium

IRC:
#selenium Channel on freenode

Selenium Introduction and Installation