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Using Selenium to Scrape the Web
So far, we have learned about some Python libraries, web and API-based technologies, data-finding and locating elements, extraction techniques, and plenty of data-related services in Chapters 1 to 7.
Selenium automates browsers – a quote from https://www.selenium.dev/, and it is primarily a collection of tools also known as a testing framework. Selenium is used to automate the web (applications, website forms, and much more) for testing purposes. Along with testing using automation, there are many potential service cum task-based scenarios that can be performed and handled using Selenium. The Selenium framework consists of various modules or components. We will be using Selenium WebDriver.
In general, we will ...
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