Web Scraping with Selenium in Python (Shallow Thoughts)

Web Scraping with Selenium in Python

This is part 1 of my selenium exploration.

• Part I: Selenium Basics (this article)
• Part II: Running Headless on a Server
• Part III: Handling Errors and Timeouts

At the New Mexico GNU & Linux User Group, currently meeting virtually on Jitsi, someone expressed interest in scraping websites. Since I do quite a bit of scraping, I offered to give a tutorial on scraping with the Python module BeautifulSoup.

"What about selenium?" he asked. Sorry, I said, I've never needed selenium enough to figure it out.

But then a week later, I found I did have a need.

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