PYTHON

selenium webdriver

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

chrome_driver_path = Service(
    "C:Developmentchromedriver_win32chromedriver.exe")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=chrome_driver_path)
URL = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page"
driver.get(URL)

articles = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="articlecount"]/a[1]')
print(articles.text)
driver.quit()

what is webdriver in selenium

WebDriver:

WebDriver object represents the browser in Selenium.
Using this object you can control the Web browser.
It is an interface of the org.openqa.selenium.* package.
Upon instantiating the implementations of this class 
the browser will be launched.
FirefoxDrive, ChromeDriver, 
InternetExplorerDriver, SafariDriver, OperaDriver, 
HtmlUnitDriver, RemoteWebDriver are few 
implementations of the WebDriver Interface.

selenium driver

def get_webdriver():
    """Get whatever webdriver is availiable in the system.
    webdriver_manager and selenium are currently being used for this.
    Supported browsers:[Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Internet Expolorer]
    Returns:
            a webdriver that can be used for scraping. Returns None if we don't find a supported webdriver.

    """
    try:
        driver = webdriver.Firefox(
            executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install())
    except Exception:
        try:
            driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
        except Exception:
            try:
                driver = webdriver.Ie(IEDriverManager().install())
            except Exception:
                try:
                    driver = webdriver.Opera(
                        executable_path=OperaDriverManager().install())
                except Exception:
                    try:
                        driver = webdriver.Edge(
                            EdgeChromiumDriverManager().install())
                    except Exception:
                        driver = None
                        logging.error(
                            "Your browser is not supported. Must have one of the following installed to scrape: [Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Internet Expolorer]")

    return driver

selenium webdriver what browser am i using?

var cap = ((RemoteWebDriver)driver).Capabilities;
var browserName = cap["browserName"].ToString();