Selenium with Chromium doesn't work anymore? how to use Selenium without output display

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Hello,
I’m using Selenium to get web page information and everything worked fine but from yesterday it seems Chromium (or Firefox) doesn’t work anymore …
When I start the driver, it loads the .nix Chromium and then stops with an error.
It is the same with Firefox.

Here is a very simple repl that shows the issue… It worked fine yesterday and now it cannot start anymore
https://replit.com/@fvillemin/seleniumtest

I have created a brand new Repl using pypeeter which also uses Chromium and it is the same … it says Chromium has closed …
https://replit.com/@fvillemin/pypeeter-test

What can I do ? is there a change in the configuration to make ?
Thanks

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Uncomment the headless argument in main.py so it doesn’t use the display

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yes that’s a good idea but I need the window to make it work with the site i want to scrape.
In fact the issue is coming from the lack of video display / output that affects many repls right now … Hopefully it should be fixed soon

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(The process started from chrome location /nix/store/z0b6n2bqlssqwd9va76mb8flcwwzywc9-chromium-98.0.4758.102/bin/chromium is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

I have the similar problem. Is it the similar error that you’re having?

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Keep an eye here for when it will be resolved

https://status.replit.com/notices/3wmftmyze3dvdcjw-vnc-repl-boot-issue

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would Firefox with virtual display work?

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I doubt it, as all Output/Display* programs do not work right now.

* - Anything that requires a screen

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It works. I was asking whether it’d work for the website they want to scrape

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yeah it seems to work … I have tried to integrate it in my main program but there is still an error.
What did you change in the repl.nix ? you have just added the FIREFOX variable ?

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I also added pkgs.xorg.xorgserver to the deps

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great, it works fine !
Even if I would love to see the Output window back for many projects, my main issue about Selenium is fine with your solution … Great job ! Thanks :slight_smile:

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Is there a way like this with pupeeteer?

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Nvm, got it… https://replit.com/@techwithanirudh/GPT-4-API

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