/r/selenium/

r/selenium

15k members
r/selenium is a subreddit with 15k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses selenium, automation, testing, chrome, and python.
Welcome to the selenium subreddit! This is a space to discuss Selenium, the popular open source web browser automation project. Selenium is a set of tools and libraries to control your web browser. It is used by thousands of individuals and companies doing automated software testing and web scraping. We hope you enjoy this community.

Popular Themes in r/selenium

#1
Advice Requests
: "Is Selenium still worth learning for modern websites?"
38 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "After 6 years of Selenium, we stopped fighting over frameworks and went selector-free"
33 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "What are your biggest pain points with Selenium?"
7 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "Built a tool to detect stable locators (Shadow DOM, iframe, Playwright/Selenium) — feedback welcome"
3 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Quick Survey on Web Automation Frameworks (Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, etc.) — Need Your Input!"
2 posts
#6
Opportunities
: "Senior QA Engineer with 9 years experience looking for opportunities in Germany (Automation + Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)"
1 post
#7
News
: "Selenium founder will be a part of this event"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/selenium

#1

Selenium

: "Is Selenium still the best tool for automation testing?"
131 posts
#2

Automation

: "Is Selenium still the best tool for Automation testing?"
59 posts
#3

Testing

: "Is Selenium still the best tool for automation Testing?"
40 posts
#4

Chrome

: "WhatsApp Web PDF upload works in normal Chrome, but fails silently in Headless Chrome (Selenium C#)"
24 posts
#5

Python

: "Just starting with Python + Selenium – need advice!"
20 posts
#6

Browser

: "Best alternative to host a Selenium Python script (needs full Browser, not headless)"
13 posts
#7

Web

: "Selenium vs Playwright for Production-Ready Web Scraping Backend?"
13 posts
#8

Java

: "What’s the best Selenium automation course (Java) that actually helped you in real projects?"
7 posts
#9

Webdriver

7 posts
#10

Framework

: "Looking for unique ideas to implement in my Selenium + RestAssured Automation Framework"
7 posts

Flair Used in r/selenium

#1
Unsolved
: "Vibecheck: Are people using AI code editors for Selenium test automation"
13 posts
#2
Question
: "Is headless Selenium reliable for production automation?"
6 posts
#3
Resource
: "My first real dive into Selenium — still remember how magical it felt to see a browser move on its own"
5 posts
#4
Showcase
: "I built a News Scrapper using Selenium and tkinter"
2 posts
#5
Solved
: "What is Selenium WebDriver and how does it work?"
1 post

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Last updated: June 30, 2026