Is Selenium worth using?

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I spent a while trying to find out if there is an up-to-date version of the Selenium add-in, but haven't had much luck.
It's an add-in that allows VBA to manipulate Chrome and Firefox as object models just like IE. This would be tremendously useful since IE is not able to navigate some websites, and in the future it may become functionally extinct (maybe, maybe not).

The problem is that the Selenium I found on GitHub seems to be a few years out of date. I found a post from 2018 on Reddit that had a link to a more recent Chrome driver, but there was no explanation as to what I needed to do with it. With what I have downloaded so far I am able to set Selenium as a reference in the VBE, but not the SeleniumWrapper. The former has only 5 properties and doesn't seem to be meant for VBA.

Any help is appreciated.
 
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I never had luck with Selenium. I use PowerQuery for any web scraping that I need to do.
 
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