How can we use Selenium Webdriver in colab.research.google.com?

Question

I want to use Selenium Webdriver of Chrome in colab.research.google.com for fast processing. I was able to install Selenium using !pip install selenium but the

Answer 1

You can can rid of using .exe file by using WebDriverManager so instead of this

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "driverpath/.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

you will be writing this

WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

All you need is add the dependecy to the POM file(Im assuming you using maven or some build tool) Please see my full answer about how to use this in this link Using WebdriverManager