Selenium (JavaScript)
Official Selenium WebDriver bindings for JavaScript: drive real browsers for tests.
Scraping, browsers and parsing npm Apache-2.0 Browser automation
How Selenium (JavaScript) is used
AgentGid editors added Selenium (JavaScript) to the catalog as a well-known library for browser automation. In our scan it appears in 6 public GitHub projects, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents, so there is too little project data to rank it against the tools people use most. The most used alternative in our scan is Puppeteer (84 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Class Variance Authority (50.0%), Tailwind Merge (50.0%), Tailwind CSS (66.7%).
Selenium (JavaScript) popularity over time
Gid Score 49: downloads 64, use in agent projects 10, GitHub stars 71, downloads trend 41 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Selenium (JavaScript)
| Class Variance Authority | 50.0% of Selenium (JavaScript) projects · 3.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind Merge | 50.0% of Selenium (JavaScript) projects · 2.7× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 66.7% of Selenium (JavaScript) projects · 2.0× more than average |
| cross-env | 33.3% of Selenium (JavaScript) projects · 10.2× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 33.3% of Selenium (JavaScript) projects · 4.2× more than average |
| TanStack Query | 33.3% of Selenium (JavaScript) projects · 4.5× more than average |
| Tauri | 33.3% of Selenium (JavaScript) projects · 45.0× more than average |
| cmdk | 33.3% of Selenium (JavaScript) projects · 5.3× more than average |
How Selenium (JavaScript) is funded
Open Collective: Selenium
| Received, last 12 months | $20,407 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $23,146 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $10,043 |
| Raised since the start | $35,987 · $25,945 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $882 · $782 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +103% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 20 |
Top company backers all time, 16 companies in total
| TestingBot | $2,000 since Aug 2024 |
|---|---|
| Gwenify | $2,000 since Jan 2025 |
| Gridlastic | $2,000 since Jan 2025 |
| ALPI | $2,000 since Jan 2025 |
| BairesDev | $1,100 since May 2026 |
Sep 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Sep 2023. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @SeleniumHQ | 15 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay.
Ways to fund Selenium (JavaScript)
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install selenium-webdriver |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (5), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | qixing-jk/all-api-hub, AkashJana18/copilotmate, easyCris-software/easyCris |
Alternatives to Selenium (JavaScript)
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Selenium (JavaScript) are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
74 | 84 (1.7%) | 6.7M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| Playwright Core npm Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping. |
83 | 75 (1.6%) | 78M | 98.1K | Apache-2.0 |
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