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Today I recieved my Raspberry pi 3 Model B+. I downloaded NOOBS and installed it on my raspberry pi. However, I cannot run a selenium browser on it. I have tried to install iceweasel but it says that package is not available. I tried and installed FireFox-esr but the python script crashes. I tried to use Chromium, but that also doesn't work. All the questions/answers to this problem I looked up, don't work in 2019.

So my question is. What version of selenium do I need to install, and what browser do I need? Can someone tell me the commands to use, as well as show me a quick test script (just to open the url https://www.youtube.com on selenium). I don't care what browser it is, I just want to get selenium to work (prefer chrome, but I don't mind).


My test script

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
#driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com")

while(1):
    pass
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  • NOOBS is not an operating system. What operating system do you use from it? Is it Raspbian? What version?
    – Ingo
    Sep 27, 2019 at 7:25

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I would suggest switching to ChromeDriver and using a package from the Raspbian repo as described here

sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver
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  • I think that this is the simplest and faster method to use selenium. No need to specify the path when using it Jun 6, 2020 at 13:19
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I've got Selenium and Chromium/chromedriver working on my RaspPi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 running Buster. Here's how I installed everything and below is code that works for me.

I started with update and dist-upgrade:

sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Install Selenium (if you haven't already):

sudo pip install selenium

Install chromedriver (these steps could prob be shortened, but they worked for me):

I got a .deb file from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/chromium-chromedriver I chose this one: "chromium-chromedriver 65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 in armhf (Updates)" which has the URL http://launchpadlibrarian.net/361669488/chromium-chromedriver_65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_armhf.deb (but note there is another version labeled “Release” that could be tried) (this is an older version of chromedriver, but it gets updated in subsequent steps below)

So I ran

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/361669488/chromium-chromedriver_65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_armhf.deb

then (following https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159094/how-to-install-a-deb-file-by-dpkg-i-or-by-apt):

sudo dpkg -i chromium-chromedriver_65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_armhf.deb

and

sudo apt-get install -f

Then, sudo reboot and sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

The dist-upgrade results showed that chromedriver was updated to version 74 (same as my Chromium)

I also installed a couple of other required packages:

sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo pip install PyVirtualDisplay
sudo pip install xvfbwrapper 

I then rebooted.

The following Python 2.7 code works for me:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from selenium import webdriver
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display

print 'Starting ...'
display = Display(visible=0, size=(1600, 1200))
display.start()
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver')
print 'webdriver loaded'

# Navigate to target website
driver.get('https://www.youtube.com')

driver.save_screenshot('SeleniumChromiumTest.png')
print 'target page loaded adnd screenshot taken'
print 'Done'

Hope this helps, good luck!

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