There’s a lot we can do with Selenium. A seemingly simple web-automation tool can quickly be supercharged using impressive methods — like WebElements and XPath.

And no, this isn’t only useful for browser automation. Have you ever tried to web scrape dynamic web pages with Python? It’s practically impossible without the use of Selenium.

So that’s exactly what we’re going to do in this article. We will look at what Selenium is, how we can set it up, and begin working with it. Then we will apply what we learn to scrape data from YouTube.

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