May I be rate limited by using Selenium for webscraping on websites?

Question

I know there are rate limits for when you send get requests to a website, but does it apply to selenium? Can I get limited for that?

For example, in the above code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:\Users\path\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://google.com/")
while True:
  driver.find_element(by=By.CLASS_NAME, value="link")

Does the find_element() function count as a GET request?

Answer 1

Selenium driven WebDriver initiated Browsing Context if gets detected as a bot can be Rate Limited too.

Generally, Cloudflare rate-limits the visitor when the visitor traffic crosses the rate-limit thresholds which is calculated by, dividing 24 hours of uncached website requests by the unique visitors for the same 24 hours. Then, divide by the estimated average minutes of a visit. Finally, multiply by 4 (or larger) to establish an estimated threshold per minute for your website. A value higher than 4 is fine since most attacks are an order of magnitude above typical traffic rates.