How to build a simple auto-login bot with Python and Selenium

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Malik Brahimi blog post about automation and how to use it for tasks that are repetitive, boring, time-consuming, or otherwise inefficient without the use of a script.

With web automation, you can easily create a bot to perform different tasks on the web, for instance to monitor competing hotel rates across the Internet and determine the best price.

Tutorial then describes and guides you through:

  • Installation and setup
    • including Python
    • Google Chrome browser
    • Selenium browser automation toolkit
    • Chrome Driver web driver
  • Starting the Selenium programmatically
  • Finding the input elements

To the point intro into automation with Selenium and Python. Code examples are included. Good read!

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