Python selenium multiprocessing

how can I reduce the execution time using selenium when it is made to run using multiprocessing

A lot of time in your solution is spent on launching the webdriver for each URL. You can reduce this time by launching the driver only once per thread:

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threadLocal = threading.local()

def get_driver():
  driver = getattr(threadLocal, 'driver', None)
  if driver is None:
    chromeOptions = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    chromeOptions.add_argument("--headless")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chromeOptions)
    setattr(threadLocal, 'driver', driver)
  return driver


def get_title(url):
  driver = get_driver()
  driver.get(url)
  (...)

(...)

On my system this reduces the time from 1m7s to just 24.895s, a ~35% improvement. To test yourself, download the full script.

Note: ThreadPool uses threads, which are constrained by the Python GIL. That’s ok if for the most part the task is I/O bound. Depending on the post-processing you do with the scraped results, you may want to use a multiprocessing.Pool instead. This launches parallel processes which as a group are not constrained by the GIL. The rest of the code stays the same.