Selenium Python Deployment Heroku

Deploying Python Selenium based project live into Heroku.

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• Initial Configuration in the script

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.binary_location = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CHROME_BIN")
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=os.environ.get("CHROMEDRIVER_PATH"), options=chrome_options)

• Heroku Configuration

  • Heroku buildpacks

    • Python (Select it from the officially supported buildpacks)

    • Headless Google Chrome

    • Chromedriver

  • Heroku config variables

    • CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = /app/.chromedriver/bin/chromedriver

  • requirements.txt

  • Procfile

    web: python main.py