How do I check the version of the Selenium API installed?

I want to check the version of Selenium API I am using. I tried googling it, but couldn't find out.

6 Answers

Here's how i checked for the version of selenium in Python.

>>> import selenium
>>> help (selenium)
Help on package selenium:
NAME selenium
FILE c:\python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\__init__.py
DESCRIPTION # Licensed to the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) under one # or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file # distributed with this work for additional information # regarding copyright ownership. The SFC licenses this file # to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the # "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance # with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # # # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, # software distributed under the License is distributed on an # "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY # KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the # specific language governing permissions and limitations # under the License.
PACKAGE CONTENTS common (package) selenium webdriver (package)
DATA __version__ = '2.48.0'
VERSION 2.48.0

You can also run locate selenium in the terminal, and you can see the version number in the file names.

Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:56)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import selenium
>>> print selenium.__version__
3.3.0

You would have referenced the jar's in your IDE (Eclipse or whatever you are using maybe). Check build path libraries. See the ScreenShot below:-

Just for completeness - If you have selenium installed with pip you can do:

pip freeze

and see which version you have installed, if any.

Another way of determining the Selenium version is through the command line:

dpkg-query --list '*selenium*'

Output:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===================================================-==============================-==============================-===========================================================================================================
ii python-selenium 2.48.0+dfsg1-2 all Python bindings for Selenium