00015 selenium webdriver simple example

https://chromedriver.chromium.org/getting-started

Getting started

Sample test

import time
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('http://www.google.com/');
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')
search_box.submit()
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
driver.quit()

Controlling ChromeDriver's lifetime

The ChromeDriver class starts the ChromeDriver server process at creation and terminates it when quit is called. This can waste a significant amount of time for large test suites where a ChromeDriver instance is created per test.

Use the ChromeDriverService. This is available for most languages and allows you to start/stop the ChromeDriver server yourself.

import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

service = Service('/path/to/chromedriver')
service.start()
driver = webdriver.Remote(service.service_url)
driver.get('http://www.google.com/');
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
driver.quit()