[🐛 Bug]: Missing dependency websocket-client in Python source package

[rolim]

What happened?

When installing the source distribution of selenium-4.22.0, the required dependency "websocket-client>=1.8.0" is missing.

How can we reproduce the issue?

$ pip3 install selenium --no-binary selenium
$ python3 -c "from selenium import webdriver"

Relevant log output

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from .chrome.webdriver import WebDriver as Chrome  # noqa
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 18, in <module>
    from selenium.webdriver.chromium.webdriver import ChromiumDriver
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chromium/webdriver.py", line 22, in <module>
    from selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver import WebDriver as RemoteWebDriver
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 67, in <module>
    from .websocket_connection import WebSocketConnection
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/websocket_connection.py", line 23, in <module>
    from websocket import WebSocketApp
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'websocket'

Operating System

Ubuntu

Selenium version

4.22.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

n/a

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

n/a

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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@rolim, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[titusfortner]

Ah, we need to add it to the install requires section of the setup.py file

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