Sandbox Selenium (python)

A sandbox to develop python projects based on Selenium.

This project uses a docker image that includes all required resources such as:

• Python 3.12
• Selenium for Python
• Webdriver Manager for Python
• Google Chrome

You can test environment with the following commands:

1. Docker build and login (from linux shell):

   make build login # Build docker image and Login docker container

2. Run test.py script (from docker container)

   ./test.py # Run test.py script (open google chrome browser)
   exit # Exit from docker container

NOTE
The project include the .devcontainer folder to automate the docker build and develop within vscode.

Appendix

Build the docker image

The docker image can be manually built as follow:

# make build
docker build -t ricfio/python-selenium:3.12 .

The project docker image was built as a customization from:
mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/python:0-3.12-bullseye

Run a temporary docker container opening Google Chrome inside

# make run
docker run -it --rm --net host -e DISPLAY=unix$(DISPLAY) ricfio/python-selenium:3.12 google-chrome-stable --no-sandbox

Install Python packages

This project uses some python packages that can be installed with pip:

pip install selenium
pip install webdriver-manager

Install Google Chrome

The Google Chrome browser was installed in the docker image (linux debian based) as follow:

cd ~
sudo apt update
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb || true && sudo apt -y --fix-broken install
sudo apt clean
google-chrome-stable --version

Install VcXsrv Windows X Server

You can run Google Chrome also inside a docker container (debian based) on Windows 10 using VcXsrv Windows X Server.

1. Install the X-Server 'VcXsrv Windows X Server' (on Windows 10)
2. Run 'XLaunch for Windows' (on Windows 10)
3. Run Google Chrome from the docker container

Further details to install VcXsrv:

• Install an X-Server to display UI from the linux subsystem (WSL2)

Run Google Chrome in docker using the X-Server running on docker host

google-chrome-stable --no-sandbox --display=host.docker.internal:0.0 --disable-dev-shm-usage