I need to put into a Docker container my little Flask app that goes and check what type of Google Tags my company's clients have installed. For that i need to have selenium-wire . You supply a website and you get a json back telling you which tags are installed ( a bit like http://gachecker.com/ ). Now it works just fine with the Flask App. The issue arises when i try to put it into Docker, here is my docker script:
FROM python:3.9 WORKDIR /bziiit_checker_app
RUN pip install flask flask_restful requests BeautifulSoup4 selenium-wire undetected-chromedriver chromedriver-py
COPY ./app ./app
CMD ["python", "./app/main.py"]
Once it's in Docker and try to run it, i get that message
"selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH"
Which is a common issue when the chromedriver.exe file is not in the working directory. But it IS. Do i need to set the PATH when i'm creating the virtual environment, and if so how do i do that? Again, i'm good at A.I, terrible at app development.
I'm using Python 3.9 and am on Windows 10, Visual Studio Code, and Flask
Thank you
After a few days of pain and suffering i finally worked it out, so here is the Docker file i created to get chromedriver to work in a Docker container.
This works on Windows 10 using VS code
FROM python:3.8
# Adding trusting keys to apt for repositories
RUN wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
# Adding Google Chrome to the repositories
RUN sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
# Updating apt to see and install Google Chrome
RUN apt-get -y update
# Magic happens
RUN apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable
# Installing Unzip
RUN apt-get install -yqq unzip
# Download the Chrome Driver
RUN wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
RUN sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list'
RUN apt-get -y update
RUN apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable
# install chromedriver
RUN apt-get install -yqq unzip
RUN wget -O /tmp/chromedriver.zip http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/`curl -sS chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE`/chromedriver_linux64.zip
RUN unzip /tmp/chromedriver.zip chromedriver -d /usr/local/bin/
# Set display port as an environment variable
ENV DISPLAY=:99
COPY ./app ./app
WORKDIR /app
RUN pip install --upgrade pip
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
CMD ["python", "./main.py"]
Then, in your script, add those arguments to Chromedriver's options otherwise it'll give you an error message telling you that "Chromedriver has exited abnormally"
option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
option.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
option.add_argument("--disable-infobars")
option.add_argument("--start-maximized")
option.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
option.add_argument('--headless')
option.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
option.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
I hope this will save someone all the headache that problem gave me