≤90s: Install Selenium for Python on Ubuntu

In this video, we learn how to set up Selenium in 90 seconds or less! Made using Ubuntu on Windows (WSL). You may need to start an Xming server if you use this method (I did).

Steps​

1. Install packages.​

sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3 python3-pip firefox

2. Download

geckodriver

.​

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.26.0/geckodriver-v0.26.0-linux64.tar.gz

3. Untar

geckodriver

.​

tar xvf geckodriver-v0.26.0-linux64.tar.gz

4. Copy

geckodriver

into system

PATH

.​

Edit:

/usr/local/lib

/usr/lib

/usr/local/lib

/usr/lib

/usr/local/lib

$PATH

sudo cp geckodriver /usr/lib

5. Install the

selenium

Python package.​

pip3 install selenium

6. Edit

verify.py

and make sure Selenium is working.​

vi verify.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox() 
browser.get('http://www.google.com/')

7. Run the test script.​

python verify.py

8. Try writing a unit test with Selenium.​

vi test_selenium.py

from selenium import webdriver

class TestGoogle(unittest.TestCase):
  def setUp(self):
    self.browser = webdriver.FireFox()
  def test_title(self): 
    self.browser.get('http://www.google.com/') 
    self.assertIn('Google', self.browser.title)
  def tearDown(self):
    self.browser.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  unittest.main()

9. Run your test.​

python test_selenium.py

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