Website Automation for Complete Noobs Part 2

Adam Prescott
3 min readMay 12, 2020

In the first article in the series, we installed Python & Selenium and used them to write a script that opens a browser. In today’s article, we’ll look at how to do some basic inspection of web pages and modify our script to interact with them.

Selenium can do most of the same things you can do with web pages-namely, clicking & typing. But, just like you read and interpret what you see to know what to do, you need to tell your script how to find and do the things you want it to.