The Selenium connector will crawl content from websites using an internet browser to retrieve the pages. 

Features

Some of the features of the Selenium connector include:

• Use a real browser to retrieve the pages.
• Avoid compatibility issues with web frameworks such as Angular, React, Node, among others.

Content Retrieved

The Selenium connector retrieves several types of documents such as: 

• Web Pages.
• Sitemaps.
• Binary documents (PDF, word, images).

Limitations 

Due to API limitations, Selenium connector is only compatible with browsers that have a Web Driver implementation, for example:

• Google chrome
• Mozilla Firefox

Other features are also dependent on browser support, such as Headless Mode.

Future Development Plan 

The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:

• Add support for more browsers.

Anything we should add? Please let us know.