1. Install Selenium

we can install selenium with pip:

sudo pip3 install selenium

2. Install geckodriver

To run Firefox browser we need to install geckodriver. Let's head over to geckodriver releases page and get the latest version of geckodriver for Linux 64 bit. Downloaded file will look like this geckodriver-vx.y.z-linux64.tar.gz. Now we will extract the .tar file:

tar -xvzf geckodriver*

Make it executable:

chmod +x geckodriver

Move to /usr/local/bin/:

sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/

Remove the .tar file:

rm geckodriver*

3. Install chromedriver

To run Chrome and Chromium we need to install chromedriver which we can get from chromedriver download page. Get the latest version of chromedriver for Linux 64 bit. Downloaded file will look like this chromedriver_linux64.zip. Now we need to unzip the .zip file:

unzip chromedriver*

Make it executable:

chmod +x chromedriver

Move to /usr/local/bin/:

sudo mv chromedriver /usr/local/bin/

Remove the .zip file:

rm chromedriver*

Import webdriver

To get started we need to import webdriver from selenium:

from selenium import webdriver

Choose browser

We can choose Firefox, Chrome or Chromium as our client browser:

browser = webdriver.$client_browser()

Where $client_browser= 'Firefox', 'Chrome' or 'Chromium'.

Open a URL

After the selecting the browser we can use the get() method to open a URL.:

browser.get('url.tld')

For exapmle:

browser.get('https://duckduckgo.com')