I need to run headless browser on ec2 using selenium python. I tried chrome headless but it didn't work

Question

import chromedriver   
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
options.add_argument('window-size=1200x600')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver,chrome_options=options)

I get the following error when I execute this code:

raise RuntimeError('This package supports only Linux, MacOSX or Windows platforms')
RuntimeError: This package supports only Linux, MacOSX or Windows platforms

Answer 1

Okie seems like they have a bug in installation of module

It will only work when you are running under a virtual environment and not when you are using direct system pip installation. The issue occurs because for direct install the drivers are download to /usr/local and it expects them to be available at the package location.

Also you have an error in your usage

browser = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver,chrome_options=options)

should be

browser = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver.CHROMEDRV_PATH,chrome_options=options)

So you can either use virtual env. Or you can just install package and don't import it.

So your code would be

from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
options.add_argument('window-size=1200x600')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)