Selenium API

Selenium is a powerful open-source framework for automating web browsers. Our API integration with Selenium allows you to programmatically control browser instances, perform automated testing, scrape dynamic web content, and more. This guide will help you set up and integrate Selenium with our API seamlessly.

Prerequisites

• Programming Language: Python, Java, JavaScript, or any language with Selenium bindings.
• Selenium WebDriver: Install the appropriate WebDriver for your target browser (e.g., ChromeDriver for Chrome).
• API Key: Obtain your API key from your account dashboard.
• Dependencies: Install the Selenium package for your language (e.g., pip install selenium for Python).

Setup

1. Install Selenium. Use your package manager to install Selenium. For example, in Python:

pip install selenium

2. Download WebDriver. Download and configure the WebDriver for your browser (e.g., ChromeDriver). Ensure it's in your system PATH.

3. API Configuration. Include your API key in your script to authenticate requests.

Basic Example (Python)

Below is an example of integrating Selenium with our API to automate a browser task:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import requests

# API Endpoint
API_ENDPOINT = "https://api.example.com/data"

# Initialize Selenium WebDriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()  # Ensure ChromeDriver is installed
driver.get("https://example.com")

# Perform an action (e.g., find an element)
element = driver.find_element(By.ID, "sample-id")
print(f"Element text: {element.text}")

# Call our API with Selenium data (without any API key or authorization header)
payload = {"data": element.text}
response = requests.post(API_ENDPOINT, json=payload)

# Handle API response
if response.status_code == 200:
    print("API Response:", response.json())
else:
    print("API Error:", response.status_code)

# Clean up
driver.quit()

Key Features

• Browser Automation: Control Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and more.
• Dynamic Content: Scrape or interact with JavaScript-rendered pages.
• API Synergy: Send Selenium-extracted data to our API for processing.

Troubleshooting

• Ensure WebDriver matches your browser version.
• Check API rate limits in your dashboard.
• Handle exceptions for network or element lookup failures.