Selenium Software Requirements

Software Requirements for Python-Selenium Setup

  • Python
  • Selenium python libraries
  • Browser Drivers (Chrome driver , FireFox driver etc).
  • IDE such as - Pycharm , Eclipse , Visual Studio Code.

Now Let's install and configure one by one.

1. Python 3.x

  • Download the python
  • Install python
  • Make sure Python is installed and set the environmental variable path.Check the Python version in terminal by typing following command (Python3 --version)
  • To check where python is install ( where python3)
  • To check pip3 version ( pip3 --version)


2. Selenium python libraries

  • Launch the command prompt and type ( pip install selenium ) Or ( pip3 install selenium )
  • Check whether selenium is installed or not, By typing ( pip3 list) so that it shows all lists of libraries which are installed.

List of libraries


3. Browser Driver

  • Download the respective browser driver from the Link or Search for respective driver in google.

Chrome Driver Google search

Chrome Driver Link

Chrome Driver Zip File

4. IDE

  • Use any IDE such as Pycharm, Eclipse and Visual Studio code etc for coding purpose.
  • Download the IDE and install it.


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