SeleniumHQ/selenium
★ 34,559 stars
Covered in week 2026-W15 · the 2026-04 report
A browser automation framework and ecosystem.
What selenium is
Selenium is an umbrella project encapsulating a variety of tools and libraries enabling web browser automation. Selenium specifically provides an infrastructure for the W3C WebDriver specification — a platform and language-neutral coding interface compatible with all major web browsers.
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Browser testing platforms like BrowserStack charge $39 a month per user. Selenium does the exact same thing completely free. It automates any browser, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, in any programming language from a single unified API. That's why over 54 million developers download it every single month. 34,000 stars on GitHub and 20 years of battle-tested reliability. If your team pays for browser automation, you're just burning budget. Worth a star? Link in description.
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