I'm fed up with always having to struggle unnecessarily when I have to use Selenium on a new machine, so I made this little python module for my personal use to simplify Selenium's utilisation in a new environment

0. Download SeleniumManager.py

1. Download and put with SeleniumManager.py the correct firefox geckodriver here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

2. Install Selenium using, for example:

python -m pip install selenium

3. Launch Python in the repertory containing SeleniumManager.py and the geckodriver

4. Import Selenium Manager by doing in the python console

import SeleniumManager

It will open the Firefox browser

. So you can:

• go to an url by typing directly in the opened browser or by typing in the python console

SeleniumManager.get(string: url)

• get elements using css-selectors by doing

SeleniumManager.find_elements(string: css-selector): SeleniumWebElement[]

• manipulate the obtained array as you want

l = SeleniumManager.find_elements("ul#list li a")
result = map(lambda el: el.text, l)
print(l)