The Complete RSelenium Installation Guide (2023)

This video will walk you through how to properly install RSelenium on your machine to perform web automation.

Azul Java (JDK) download:

In-depth RSelenium Tutorial:

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[mrivaden]

Hi Samer, you saved me from an entire afternoon of frustration. It was all that tiny license file. Thank you very much; you are a real hero!

[alanscott]

Really great video. I've been messing about with chatGPT trying to get RSelenium to work and could never find a port. This nailed it and I'm scraping till my boots fill.

[erickprieto]

I had already used RSelenium before, but changed computers and for some reason it wouldn't run in my new laptop. This worked perfectly, thank you!

[alwt]

You save the day Samer!!! a single stupid license file had wasted me 3 days of time not being able to start the code.

[marvinzuniga]

Great work Samer. Like others, I spent a lot of time trying to get this working. Turned out the java setup is where I was having issues.

One small comment/suggestion - I did have to restart my computer after updating my environment in order to get the java version to show in command prompt.

Thanks so much for your help!

[Synanamou]

Amazing, Samer! Been going through endless searches, until I've found the file deletion bit. Thanks!

[mattskalicky]

you are a legend. That license file was the issue. I'd never have worked that out

[alexei.domorev]

Thank you, Samer. I've spent a lot of time trying to get RSelenium up and running. Sorted it out in 5 min after watching this video. Much appreciated!

[leonardocastro]

My hero doesn't wear a cape. He programs in R

[michelegrieco]

Excellent explanation. Thank you Samer!

[aliwow]

I want to give you a big hug. Thank you so much. You save my life

[creg]

RSelenium stopped working for us a few weeks back and I had no idea why. I searched and searched for answers but I could not find anything. Your video pops up on reddit, and I decide to watch. You nonchalantly mention how the latest chrome drivers come with a license file which needs to be deleted. That's the answer! This needs to get out into the R community as this is relatively a new thing. Regardless, thank goodness you posted this video.

[babyroo]

OH THANK YOU SO MUCH! I've been struggling with the JAVA not found, then server version, then "port not available" problem for the past few hours one after the other! Legend thank you. Subscribed :)

[netpk]

Thanks dear. Your help is greatly appreciated. Stay blessed.

[jjmarcos]

You're the man. Thanks for this info, saved me a giant headache

[qbwoa]

This video is a lifesaver. Thank you Samer

[zachirefaeli]

Thank you Samer, great video very clear

[sandeipkhanvilkar]

Well done, Samer, Keep up the good work!

[amyorissa]

This was amazing, thank you very much, I went from wanting to throw my laptop out of the window, to opening the browser and getting it to work. Im using mac and had to do some things for the Environment Variable that was different, but I figured it out. Suggestion for further RSelenium videos, how to scrape from dynamic websites that use javascript to load data to the browser. Im currently trying to extract HTML from a website that does this, I can see the elements in the inspect section of the remDr browser, but try as I may, I cant extract that information, I could really use some pointers on how to get that done. Thanks for this video!!!!

[francktokpa]

Thank you so much. The content is very interesting. However I encounter a problem; my chrome browser version is "124.0.6367.79" which is not available in the chromedriver version list. How do I resolve the problem?