Selenium FastAPI

Deploy a lightweight Selenium + FastAPI scraper on Railway: headless Chromium, optimized Chrome flags, clean FastAPI service, and ready-to-extend blueprint for web scraping.

Features

• Headless Chromium + Chromedriver preinstalled
• Optimized Chrome flags for low-memory Railway environments
• Simple FastAPI endpoint (/scrape) as Selenium scraping example
• BS4 for fast HTML parsing
• Minimal, reproducible Dockerfile
• $PORT-aware FastAPI server

Endpoints

Route	Description
/	Basic health/status check
/scrape	Example scraper using Selenium → BS4 (scrapethissite.com)

File Structure

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├── Dockerfile
├── main.py
└── requirements.txt

How It Works

• Chromium & Chromedriver installed through apt
• Headless Chrome launched with safe container flags
• Selenium retrieves page HTML
• BeautifulSoup handles parsing for performance
• FastAPI exposes clean HTTP endpoints for triggering scrapes

Notes

• Suitable as a base template for any Selenium scraping workflow
• Recommended to add request queueing if scraping becomes heavy
• For production scraping, consider disabling large asset loading (images, fonts)