[hk1337]

> Say goodbye to webdriver compatibility nightmares

That's cool but Chrome is the only browser I have had these issues with. We have a cron process that uses selenium, initially with Chrome, and every time there was a chrome browser update we had to update the web driver. I switched it to Firefox and haven't had to update the web driver since.

I like the async portion of this but this seems like MechanicalSoup?

*EDIT* MechanicalSoup doesn't necessarily have async, AFAIK.

[thalissonvs]

I don't think it's similar. The library has many other features that Selenium doesn't have. It has few dependencies, which makes installation faster, allows scraping multiple tabs simultaneously because it’s async, and has a much simpler syntax and element searching, without all the verbosity of Selenium. Even for cases that don’t involve captchas, I still believe it’s definitely worth using.

[hk1337]

Similar to MechanicalSoup is what I meant, which uses BeautifulSoup as well.

> without all the verbosity of Selenium

It's definitely verbose but from my experience a lot of the verbosity is developers always looking for elements from the root every time instead of looking for an element, selenium returns that WebElement, and searching within that element.

[VladVladikoff]

I had the same problem and just added a few lines of code which check the version and update it if required.

[at0mic22]

This one is not using webdrive, but raw chrome debugging protocol