Excel VBA Introduction Part 57.3 - Using Different Web Browsers with Selenium

By Andrew Gould

Chapters
00:00 Topic List
00:32 The Example
01:49 Testing Google Chrome
04:08 Getting the Opera WebDriver
06:00 Testing the Opera Browser
06:43 Getting the Edge WebDriver
08:34 Renaming the Edge WebDriver
09:55 Why FireFox Doesn't Work
12:08 Using the WebDriver Interface
14:28 Creating a Drop List to Choose a Browser
16:00 Referring to the Selected Browser

This video shows you how to install the web drivers for the Microsoft Edge and Opera web browsers for use with Selenium in VBA. You'll learn how to copy the web drivers to your Selenium installation folder and how to switch between Chrome, Edge and Opera in your VBA code. You'll also find out why the Firefox browser is no longer supported.

[rishabhjain]

Hello Andrew,

I have been watching your videos for quite a long time now and they all are very detailed and well explained. You are really excellent at what you do. Thank you for sharing your precious knowledge!

[bencole]

Hello Andrew. Another absolutely amazing video delivered by an absolute tutorial God. I seriously enjoy the information, delivery and manner by which you deliver the content. I cannot praise you highly enough. I shall be a Wise Owler for life now and already thinking about other videos I can begin to learn from. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, skills and for being a genuinely good human...

[KhalilYasser]

Thanks a lot, my tutor. Amazing tutorial

[paulsherwood]

Dear Andrew, like the other commenters I find your teaching style amazingly clear and you have helped me enormously. Unfortunately the methods using Internet Explorer directly from Access/Excel don't work through Edge, IE is being phased out, and some of the old websites I work with need Edge to open in IE mode. I have tried to use the IEDriver but am struggling to get it to work. Could you please extend this video with an example of how to open a webpage in IE mode in Edge and automate it using Selenium rather than the techniques in the earlier video series? Thank you very much Paul

[manuelmarquez]

Good afternoon from Spain. I've ben following your web scraping tutorials and they are brilliant, amazing and comprehensible. I would appreciate enormously treat the issue "error 10 stale element reference exception" and how to solve it with vba and selenium.

[FlyHigh]

Wow, where did that "validate" button popped from? I had no idea it was there (Running Excel Mac 2011 and, yes, works as intended).

[juanpablohorn]

Great video Andrew! I was wondering if it would be possible to see how to work with emails through selesium. Gmail for example. Compose emails and maybe attach some file to it would be interesting.

[tanliemnguyen]

I’ve watched a lot of your videos about selenium to automate web. But error occurs when I clicked previewer button and a new tab (about blank) open. If I want to download pdf file, I have to switch to this tab and click the download button. It’s not successful and I got ‘timeout not receiving message from renderer” . I tried many solutions but can not solve this problem.

[liviapenariol]

Andrew, you are amazing!!!! But, even I update my chromedriver still appearing error. Can you help me?

[yashchawla]

Is there any way to know if the download is completed? When we try downloading something using selenium.

[katznatz]

How to remove "chrome is being automated by test software"? Browser infobar

[DM-pypj]

Are you running selenium basic successfully with windows 10?

[Krishnauniyal]

hi my browser is getting closed after run the code, how to stop that