selenium-python-helium
Lighter web automation for Python [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium] (by mherrmann)
helium
Selenium-python but lighter: Helium is the best Python library for web automation. [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium] (by mherrmann)
| selenium-python-helium | helium | |
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| 11 | 4 | |
| 3,696 | 2,416 | |
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| 0.0 | 5.8 | |
| almost 2 years ago | over 4 years ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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selenium-python-helium
Posts with mentions or reviews of selenium-python-helium.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.
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Autotab – Boring AI Agents for real world tasks
I don't get why people still use XPaths, CSS selectors or HTML IDs to identify elements, even when they are "recorded". Please please please just use my https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium instead. It makes so much more sense.
- Selenium-Python but Lighter: Helium
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Automating some process with PyAutoGui?
You can, though it might not be the best tool for this. Automation of web entry is better done with selenium, or my favorite variation helium.
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Would you be interested in POM generator for Selenium?
Regarding automatic selectors: check out my open source library https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium.
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Python Selenium Can't Grab CSS_Selector TEXT
quick example https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium
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Beginner scraping question for beautiful soup after series of 'clicks' on webpage
If this all fails you'll have to fall back on a web driver like selenium or one of its wrappers like helium.
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Simplest code to load webpage in selenium, plaintext dump and send actions to certain elements
Simplest would probably be not using Selenium directly, but a wrapper like helium. Most of its functions you'd need are listed here.
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PyAutoGUI with CSS Selector
If you're talking about CSS I reckon you want to click/input things on a website inside your browser. In this case you would use a web driver which can automate a web browser like Chrome or Firefox. Something like Helium, Selenium or pyppeteer.
- Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright
- Lookup ERROR while trying to log in instagram using Helium/Selenium
helium
Posts with mentions or reviews of helium.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-10.
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This Week In Python
helium - Lighter web automation with Python
- Helium: Lighter Web Automation with Python
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Playwright Test Generator
Unreasonably shameless plug for my open source Python library Helium, so you don't need a test generator. [1]
1: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium
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How do I get passed an ad/popup?
If using an extension of Selenium is an option for you, you can use (my) library Helium. It will let you do:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing selenium-python-helium and helium you can also consider the following projects:
undetected-chromedriver - Custom Selenium Chromedriver | Zero-Config | Passes ALL bot mitigation systems (like Distil / Imperva/ Datadadome / CloudFlare IUAM)
proxy_web_crawler - Automates the process of repeatedly searching for a website via scraped proxy IP and search keywords
SeleniumBase - Python APIs for web automation, testing, and bypassing bot-detection.
testcontainers-python - Testcontainers is a Python library that providing a friendly API to run Docker container. It is designed to create runtime environment to use during your automatic tests.
2-captcha-solver-python - A python program that automates Recaptcha solving using the 2Captcha service.
pyleniumio - Bring the best of Selenium and Cypress into a single Python package