Selenium plus some generic functions

Utils.py

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
import logging
from datetime import datetime
import csv
import os
import json


if not os.path.exists("data"):
    os.mkdir("data")


class Utils:
    @staticmethod
    def setup_selenium_driver():
        logging.info("starting init selenium")
        chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
        chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
        chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
        selenium_driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
        logging.info("finished init selenium")
        return selenium_driver
    
    @staticmethod
    def setup_selenium_firefox():
        options = Options()
        options.headless = True
        driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, executable_path="/usr/local/bin/geckodriver")
        logging.info("starting init selenium")
        return driver

    @staticmethod
    def write_csv(filename, data):
        """ appends data """
        with open(filename, "a", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as f:
            writer = csv.writer(f)
            writer.writerow(data)

    @staticmethod
    def init_csv_file(filename, header):
        """
        initializes a file with header
        """
        with open(filename, mode="w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as cp:
            writer = csv.writer(cp)
            writer.writerow(header)
    
    @staticmethod
    def json_to_unicode(filename):
        jdata = json.loads(open(filename).read())
        with open(filename, "w") as fp:
            json.dump(jdata, fp, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)