A python-selenium enabled environment

This image offer an environment ready for running your selenium web scrapper python applications.

It is based on geckodriver, Mozila Firefox and Python 3.9.

Usage

On your python code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

fx_bin = '/usr/bin/firefox-esr'
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, firefox_binary=fx_bin)

driver.get('http://www.google.com')

The Dockerfile

  # base image
  FROM python:3.9-slim-buster

  ## Installing firefox and geckodriver
  RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq firefox-esr wget

  # GeckoDriver v0.29.1
  RUN wget -q "https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.29.1/geckodriver-v0.29.1-linux64.tar.gz" \
      -O /tmp/geckodriver.tgz \
      && tar zxf /tmp/geckodriver.tgz -C /usr/bin/ \
      && rm /tmp/geckodriver.tgz

  # create symlinks to geckodriver (to the PATH)
  RUN ln -s /usr/bin/geckodriver && chmod 777 /usr/bin/geckodriver

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