Discussion on: Creating an API that runs Selenium via AWS Lambda

[Awolad Hossain]

@jairaencio Sorry, It's not solved yet. I mean the error is not related to the import the stealth package issue. Because the package is already in my lambda layer. The driver fails to load when the stealth package is used.

[Jaira Encio]

does the error only occur when you add selenium-stealth library? Upon checking I noticed that others are experiencing issue in their local machines just by using stealth. You could try adding options.add_argument("--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled") . Then try if it works both on your local and lambda.

[Awolad Hossain]

Yes.

With the selenium-stealth default options like following:

options = Options()
options.binary_location = '/opt/headless-chromium'
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
# options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/opt/chromedriver', chrome_options=options)

stealth(driver,
        languages=["en-US", "en"],
        vendor="Google Inc.",
        platform="Win32",
        webgl_vendor="Intel Inc.",
        renderer="Intel Iris OpenGL Engine",
        fix_hairline=True,
        )

I'm getting error: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally\n (Driver info: .....

By using this post options like following:

options = Options()
options.binary_location = '/opt/headless-chromium'
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--single-process')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/opt/chromedriver', chrome_options=options)

stealth(driver,
     languages=["en-US", "en"],
     vendor="Google Inc.",
      platform="Win32",
      webgl_vendor="Intel Inc.",
      renderer="Intel Iris OpenGL Engine",
       fix_hairline=True,
)

I'm getting error: "'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'execute_cdp_cmd'"

[Jaira Encio]

I'm seeing this article related to "execute_cdp_cmd" error. Apparently they used pip install --pre selenium to be able to execute CDP commands github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/iss...

[Awolad Hossain]

I also tried that but not working. I forgot to mention that. It would be helpful for us if you try with the selenium-stealth package and update this post. Because some websites we can't scrape without the selenium-stealth package. Thanks!