webdriver-setup

Easy to use webdriver instance creation api.

This package prevents manually downloading and setup of the webdriver binaries by automatically finding and installing the related webdriver binary, and provides an easy to use instance creation api. It uses webdriver_manager package.

Supported browsers

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Opera
• Safari
• Ie
• Edge (Chromium based)

Installation

pip install webdriver-setup

Usage

from webdriver_setup import get_webdriver_for

# create driver instance
driver = get_webdriver_for("firefox")

# start the browser with the given url
driver.get("https://www.python.org/")

# print the title of the website
print(f"Title: {driver.title}")

# quit browser
driver.quit()

You can also pass all the keyworded arguments as you would normally do with the Selenium webdriver instances.

from webdriver_setup import get_webdriver_for
from selenium.webdriver import FirefoxOptions

firefox_options = FirefoxOptions()
firefox_options.add_argument("--headless")

driver = get_webdriver_for("firefox", options=firefox_options)

WDM Config

If you don't want to see webdriver_manager logs, set environment variable "WDM_LOG_LEVEL" to "0"

import os

os.environ["WDM_LOG_LEVEL"] = "0"

If you don't pass the cache_valid_range option, it will be set to 7 days by default. You can change it as follows

from webdriver_setup import get_webdriver_for

driver = get_webdriver_for("firefox", cache_valid_range=3)