Railway•2y ago

Path of a Nixpacks (google-chrome, chromedriver) [Python]

Hello, with the latest update I could install google-chrome and chromedriver using Nixpacks by adding a railway.json file like this (in case other people are interested):

{
  "build": {
    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
    "nixpacksPlan": {
      "providers": ["...", "python"],
      "phases": {
        "setup": {
          "nixPkgs": ["...", "google-chrome", "chromedriver"]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "build": {
    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
    "nixpacksPlan": {
      "providers": ["...", "python"],
      "phases": {
        "setup": {
          "nixPkgs": ["...", "google-chrome", "chromedriver"]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Now in order to use Selenium to webscrape (with permission), I would need to point it to the google-chrome and chromedriver path, but where is it located? How do I get access to it? (In my directories there's just a .nix file btw) Specifically, what should I write instead of '[full-google-chrome-path]' and '[full-chromedriver-path]' in the following situation:

from selenium import webdriver
GOOGLE_CHROME_PATH = '[full-google-chrome-path]'
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = '[full-chromedriver-path]'
op = webdriver.ChromeOptions()        
op.binary_location = GOOGLE_CHROME_PATH
op.add_argument('--headless')
op.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
op.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
op.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, chrome_options=op)

from selenium import webdriver
GOOGLE_CHROME_PATH = '[full-google-chrome-path]'
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = '[full-chromedriver-path]'
op = webdriver.ChromeOptions()        
op.binary_location = GOOGLE_CHROME_PATH
op.add_argument('--headless')
op.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
op.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
op.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, chrome_options=op)

Thanks!

5 Replies

Percy•2y ago

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Azu𝕏orce@シノン教•2y ago

N/A This is probably a newbie question, but that's what I am in Nixpacks... maybe someone can give me a clue on this? It's probably just a one-sentence answer. Thanks! Or do I have to install google-chrome after that? How would I do that actually? Help is very appreciated! If this is too trivial that everyone is facepalming me and moving on, please at least react so that I know this is trivial and I'm simply dumb... 😦

jr•2y ago

Hi @AzuXorce(at)シノン教, Sorry for such a delayed response on this. I haven't used google-chrome or chromedriver on nix before, but the paths of the binaries can be found in /root/.nix-profile/bin

jr•2y ago

jr•2y ago

You might also want the dev or beta versions of chrome

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Path of a Nixpacks (google-chrome, chromedriver) [Python]