How to Use Selenium in Python (2025)

Want to automate your browser with Python? In this beginner-friendly tutorial, you’ll learn **how to use Selenium in Python** to control a web browser—perfect for web scraping, automated testing, form filling, and much more.

**Selenium** is a powerful Python library that allows you to programmatically interact with websites just like a human would—clicking buttons, filling out forms, navigating pages, and even waiting for dynamic content to load.

🔹 What You’ll Learn:

* What Selenium is and when to use it
* How to install Selenium in Python
* Setting up a WebDriver (Chrome, Firefox, Edge)
* Launching a browser and opening a website
* Finding elements by ID, class, name, XPath, and CSS selector
* Typing into forms, clicking buttons, and submitting data
* Waiting for elements to load (implicit and explicit waits)
* Closing the browser properly
* Bonus: Headless mode for running Selenium without opening the browser window

📌 Installation Command:

“`bash
pip install selenium
“`

📁 WebDriver Setup:
Download the corresponding WebDriver for your browser (e.g., ChromeDriver) and add it to your system PATH or specify its location in your script.

📌 Example Code:

“`python
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# Setup
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(“https://www.example.com”)

# Interact with elements
search_box = driver.find_element(By.NAME, “q”)
search_box.send_keys(“Selenium in Python”)
search_box.submit()

# Close the browser
driver.quit()
“`

💡 Tip: Use `WebDriverWait` and `expected_conditions` to handle dynamic web pages and JavaScript-rendered content.

Whether you’re building test automation, scraping web data, or exploring browser control with Python, Selenium is an essential tool every developer should know.

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