The best way to use Selenium in Google Colab Notebooks!

• Simple setup of Selenium and ChromeDriver.
• Seamless integration with Google Colab.
• Supports Undetected ChromeDriver for more advanced use cases.

Installation

Basic usage:

%pip install google-colab-selenium

Use undetected-chromedriver version:

%pip install google-colab-selenium[undetected]

Basic Usage

import google_colab_selenium as gs

driver = gs.Chrome()
# Your code to interact with the driver here
# ...
driver.quit()

Undetected ChromeDriver

import google_colab_selenium as gs

driver = gs.UndetectedChrome()
# Your code to interact with the driver here
# ...
driver.quit()

Default Options

The google-colab-selenium package is preconfigured with a set of default options optimized for Google Colab environments. These defaults include:

• --headless: Runs Chrome in headless mode (without a GUI).
• --no-sandbox: Disables the Chrome sandboxing feature, necessary in the Colab environment.
• --disable-dev-shm-usage: Prevents issues with limited shared memory in Docker containers.
• --lang=en: Sets the language to English.

You are welcome to extend or override these options based on your needs:

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import google_colab_selenium as gs

custom_options = Options()
# Add your custom options here

driver = gs.Chrome(options=custom_options)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you have a suggestion or an issue, please use the issue tracker to let me know.

Test it out for yourself!