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    Install Firefox webdriver

How to install Firefox's Geckdodriver so you can do webscraping with Selenium and Firefox.

macOS:
$ brew install geckodriver
Ubuntu/Debian:
$ sudo apt-get update 
$ sudo apt-get install firefox-geckodriver
Resources:

Docs: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/geckodriver/
Repo: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver
Download Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
What is a web driver? https://www.tutorialspoint.com/what-is-webdriver-in-selenium