Web Scraping Using Selenium

Introduction Selenium is a framework that many developers use to automate web browsers. It’s an open source tool that offers compatibility, with web browsers and supports programming languages. While its commonly used for testing web applications it’s also handy for tasks like web scraping and automating browser actions. WebDriver, which is a part of Selenium allows developers to control web browsers programmatically. Using Selenium to scrape data Task: Scraping the latest news posts from a popular blog post Please note that to follow along you must have an understanding of basic HTML elements and CSS classes and id selectors as well as python...

October 9, 2023 · 4 min