Step by Step Guide to Install Selenium in Google Colab

Install Selenium

First, you’ll need to open your Google Colab notebook. Once you’re in, you’ll want to install Selenium by running !pip install selenium in the command prompt. This will install the Selenium library on your Colab notebook.

!pip install selenium

Install Chromium browser and driver

!apt-get update
!apt-get install chromium chromium-driver

Create Selenium options

This is an import part because the selenium will not work like usual in your google colab environment, because google colab is Ubuntu terminal based without gui so selenium webdriver will crash immediately upon start so you can add below-mentioned options.

def web_driver():
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    options.add_argument("--verbose")
    options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
    options.add_argument('--headless')
    options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
    options.add_argument("--window-size=1920, 1200")
    options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
    return driver
    
  

Now we can call this function to initiate our chrome webdriver

driver = web_driver()

driver.get('https://www.google.com')

driver.quit()