Selenium

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public(the framework, the bindings and the grid)

self-host

yes(build and run it yourself)

core features withheld

no — nothing withheld from the published tree

Selenium is Apache-2.0 across the project. The framework, the language bindings and the grid all build from the public tree, and nothing is withheld from it.

• https://api.github.com/repos/SeleniumHQ/selenium recorded 2026-09-17

  Repository metadata: spdx_id Apache-2.0, 34,494 stars, not archived, not a fork, last pushed 2026-09-17, description "A browser automation framework and ecosystem."

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/trunk/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-17

  The LICENSE body: the verbatim Apache License 2.0 text.

Adoption is measured by monthly PyPI downloads of the Python binding, one of several language bindings the project ships; the others are not counted here.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/selenium/recent recorded 2026-09-17

  last_month = 35,872,023 downloads for the `selenium` PyPI package (last_week 6,318,640, last_day 1,067,149).

The bindings cover one system, with the caller supplying every credential itself, the same footing as Puppeteer. The README read here is written for contributors - "This README is for developers interested in contributing to the project" - so it documents how the project is built rather than any runtime credential flow, and no credential mechanism appears in it.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/trunk/README.md recorded 2026-09-17

  The README: "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." Its Installing section covers Bazelisk and a JDK; no authentication section exists.