Selenium drives a real browser from Python, so it can render JavaScript, click, scroll, and log in on pages that a requests script can only ever see as an empty shell. That single capability is why it survives every “is Selenium dead yet?” think-piece. Selenium has been the most portable way to run anything in a browser with Python for over a decade.
The complete guide to web scraping with Selenium and Python
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