Issue with Selenium on a Streamlit app

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Hey all,

Given that we can now use conda to install packages on Streamlit Share (see it here), we can install firefox-esr via packages.txt (as mentioned by @ferdie you need a browser to be installed for the webdriver) and install geckodriver through conda (here’s the package).

Then we need to hardcode the path to geckodriver in the conda environment:

firefoxOptions = Options()
firefoxOptions.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(
    options=firefoxOptions,
    executable_path="/home/appuser/.conda/bin/geckodriver",
)
driver.get(URL)

This geckodriver, as opposed to an executable pushed from Github repo, can be used by the app and…I think it works, I think it works I think it does, at least I can query the Unibet tables :wink: I’ll let you test further.

I can’t guarantee it will work forever :slight_smile: if the Cloud team decides to change the path to the conda environment then you’ll have to look for it.

App: https://share.streamlit.io/andfanilo/s4a-selenium/main/app.py
Code: GitHub - andfanilo/s4a-selenium: Test Selenium + Firefox on Streamlit Share

Cheers,
Fanilo