How to Install Selenium on PyCharm?

Selenium for Python allows you to write functional tests and acceptance tests providing an API to access WebDrivers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome.

Problem Formulation: Given a PyCharm project. How to install the Selenium library in your project within a virtual environment or globally?

Here’s a solution that always works:

• Open File > Settings > Project from the PyCharm menu.
• Select your current project.
• Click the Python Interpreter tab within your project tab.
• Click the small + symbol to add a new library to the project.
• Now type in the library to be installed, in your example "selenium" without quotes, and click Install Package.
• Wait for the installation to terminate and close all popup windows.

Here’s the installation process as a short animated video—it works analogously for Selenium, just type in “selenium” in the search field instead:

Make sure to type in “selenium” because there are many other packages that are not required but also contain the term “selenium” (False Positives):

Alternatively, you can run the pip install selenium command in your PyCharm terminal view:

$ pip install selenium
Collecting selenium
  Downloading selenium-3.141.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (904 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 904 kB 2.2 MB/s
Collecting urllib3
  Using cached urllib3-1.26.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl (138 kB)
Installing collected packages: urllib3, selenium
Successfully installed selenium-3.141.0 urllib3-1.26.6

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