Automating web page interaction with selenium

• Line 8: This line creates a chrome options object, which will be used to configure how the chrome browser behaves.

• Lines 11–14: We initialize a new instance of the selenium webdriver, configuring it to use chrome with the specified options.

• Line 20: We navigate the webdriver to the "https://educative.io" url.

• Line 23: We find the HTML element with the name tag "h1".

• Line 27: We retrieve the text of the h1 element present on web page using the function getText and store it in the text variable.

• Line 30: We safely quit the webdriver, closing the browser session.

After running the above code, the chrome browser will be launched in the background and display the h1 text in the terminal.

Interacting with web elements

With the webdriver instance set up, you can interact with various web elements on the page using selenium’s methods.

Performing actions

Selenium webdriver allows you to perform common user actions such as clicking buttons and submitting forms: