Open/Get URL using Selenium for Python

Open or Get URL

To open a given URL in the browser window using Selenium for Python, call get() method on the driver object and pass the URL as argument to get() method.

driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/')

Example

  1. Initialise Chrome Web Driver object as driver.
  2. Get the URL https://pythonexamples.org/ using web driver object.

Python Program

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

service = Service(executable_path="/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")
with webdriver.Chrome(service=service) as driver:
    driver.get('https://pythonexamples.org/')

Screenshot

Open URL using Selenium for Python

Summary

In this Python Selenium Tutorial, we learned how to load a specific URL using driver.get() method.

Quiz on Selenium

Q1. What is Selenium Python used for?

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Q2. What is a web driver in Selenium Python?

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Q3. What is the method used to interact with web elements in Selenium Python?

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Q4. What is the method used to switch to a different frame in Selenium Python?

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Q5. What is the method used to take a screenshot in Selenium Python?

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