Selenium
Official Python bindings for browser automation and web scraping.
Scraping, browsers and parsing PyPI Apache-2.0
Used in agent projects
34
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#10 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
7M
PyPI, last 7 days, selenium
GitHub stars
—
no public repo found
How Selenium is used
Selenium is a dependency in 34 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #10 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (76.5%), python-dotenv (70.6%), Beautiful Soup (50.0%).
Often used with Selenium
| Requests | 76.5% of Selenium projects · 14.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| python-dotenv | 70.6% of Selenium projects · 10.8× more than average |
| Beautiful Soup | 50.0% of Selenium projects · 39.7× more than average |
| NumPy | 47.1% of Selenium projects · 12.3× more than average |
| Pydantic | 47.1% of Selenium projects · 9.2× more than average |
| pandas | 41.2% of Selenium projects · 13.7× more than average |
| PyYAML | 38.2% of Selenium projects · 12.6× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 35.3% of Selenium projects · 18.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Selenium as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install selenium |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (34) |
| Example projects | simons-freedom/X-monitor, owid/etl, jacwu/github-materials, SpongeBaby-124/CloudMusic_Auto_Player, PhungXuanAnh/selenium-mcp-server |
Alternatives to Selenium
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup pypi Python HTML/XML parsing and screen-scraping library for web data extraction. |
160 (1.3%) | 69M | — | MIT License |
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
115 (0.9%) | 11.4M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| lxml pypi High-performance XML and HTML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with Python. |
98 (0.8%) | 88.4M | 3,065 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
94 (0.7%) | 26.6M | 30.5K | MIT |
| Playwright (Python) pypi High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping. |
68 (0.5%) | 26M | 15K | — |
| fast-xml-parser npm High-performance XML parser and builder without native dependencies. |
58 (0.5%) | 83.3M | 3,139 | MIT |
| csv-parse npm Parse CSV files using Node.js streaming Transform API for memory-efficient processing. |
51 (0.4%) | 20.6M | 4,280 | MIT |
| Playwright Core npm Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping. |
49 (0.4%) | 122M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |