How to set up a Selenium Python environment for Firefox
Solution 1
As far as I understand, you want to develop in Python, using the Selenium library and work with the Firefox webdriver.
- Install Python (Python 3 already contains pip)
- Install Selenium (
pip install selenium
or some IDEs like PyCharm propose to install libraries, just import Selenium) - Download Mozilla webdriver
- Enjoy!
Solution 2
The testing machine should have Selenium v. 3.0.2, Firefox v. 51.0.1 (latest version) and geckodriver v. 0.14. If you are using Linux, please do the following steps:
[Look up the latest release on GitHub (or from the API) and replace the wget link with that. Downloading and installing an outdating release may result in "buggy" behaviour.]
apt-get update
apt-get install firefox
pip3 install selenium==3.0.2
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/vX.XX.0/geckodriver-vX.XX.0-linuxXX.tar.gz -O /tmp/geckodriver.tar.gz \
&& tar -C /opt -xzf /tmp/geckodriver.tar.gz \
&& chmod 755 /opt/geckodriver \
&& ln -fs /opt/geckodriver /usr/bin/geckodriver \
&& ln -fs /opt/geckodriver /usr/local/bin/geckodriver
Select the version for your operating system from the available compressed pre-built binaries.
Here is an example to run:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('http://google.com')
print(driver.title)
driver.quit()
Solution 3
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In Windows install Python from: https://www.python.org/downloads/
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Then run pip install from the command line:
pip install selenium
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Download the Gecko/Chrome/Internet Explorer driver and add the driver.exe path to the PATH environment variable. So the need to set up the path while running Selenium driver.Firefox() / driver.Chrome() method.
jaibalaji
Updated on February 27, 2021Comments
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jaibalaji about 3 years
How can I set up a Selenium Python environment for Firefox?
I am using Firefox 50, Selenium 3, Python 3.5. I tried with many things binary and copying the geckodriver in the environment variable PATH, etc.