How To Run Selenium Chromedriver From Python3 On Wsl2?

March 17, 2024 Post a Comment

I'm trying to headless open Chrome from WSL2 (Ubuntu 18.04) using python 3. On Windows I'm using Chrome 84. I've downloaed Chrome Driver 84 from ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome

Solution 1:

For those who have not yet found the solution. Follow this tutorial: chromedriver in WSL2 Many are similar, but what did the trick for me was to place the chromedriver in the corresponding group and user:

sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver

Solution 2:

you can install chromedrive by given code.

wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.26/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
chmod +x chromedriver
sudo mv -f chromedriver /usr/local/share/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver

you do need chrome if you don't have it use given code.

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
echo'deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

I might missing something so, please see reference site. reference: https://www.srcmake.com/home/selenium-python-chromedriver-ubuntu

After you get selenium and chrome driver you can use given code for headless chrome. Also, there is one package call "chromedriver_autoinstaller" I am not sure it is working on ubuntu or not but it's great package if you are using same script everyday and your browser is on auto-update.

code for headless chrome:

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#for headless browser use this arguments
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=1920x1080")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

put necessary arguments in webdriver.Chrome if you are using path and other conditions.