diff --git a/prodigyqa/browseractions.py b/prodigyqa/browseractions.py
index 0542768..0af6928 100755
--- a/prodigyqa/browseractions.py
+++ b/prodigyqa/browseractions.py
@@ -714,4 +714,17 @@ def __execute_script(self, script, web_elm=None):
         if isinstance(web_elm, dict):
             return self.driver.execute_script(
                 script,
-                self.__find_element(web_elm))
+                self.__find_element(web_elm)
+
+    def get_element(self, locator: dict):
+        """return web element of a locator.
+        :param locator: dictionary of identifier type
+            and value ({'by':'id', 'value':'start-of-content.'}).
+        :type locator: dict
+        """
+        self.locator_check(locator)
+        self.page_readiness_wait()
+        if isinstance(locator, dict):
+            return self.__find_element(locator)
+        else:
+            AssertionError("Invalid locator type")
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fff0a0e..9908f28 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ opencv-python
 flake8==3.7.9
 pycodestyle<2.6.0,>=2.5.0
 pandas==0.24.2
-urllib3==1.25.7
+urllib3==1.25.9
 requests>=2.21.0
-ipdb==0.12.2
+ipdb==0.13.2
 pytest>=4.0.2
-pytest-html<2.1.0
+pytest-html<2.2.0
 xlrd>=0.9.0
 scrapy
 loguru
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2c9c463..8d57f0e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@
         'flake8==3.7.9',
         'pycodestyle<2.6.0,>=2.5.0',
         'pandas==0.24.2',
-        'urllib3==1.25.7',
+        'urllib3==1.25.9',
         'requests>=2.21.0',
-        'ipdb==0.12.2',
+        'ipdb==0.13.2',
         'pytest>=4.0.2',
-        'pytest-html<2.1.0',
+        'pytest-html<2.2.0',
         'xlrd>=0.9.0',
         'scrapy',
         'nltk',