How do I use Selenium in AWS Lambda?

How do I use Selenium in AWS Lambda?

How to use Selenium Webdriver and Chrome inside AWS Lambda?

1. Login to AWS Management Console and Select AWS Lambda from Compute Services.
2. Click on Create new a function.
3. Select option Create from scratch (default select)
4. Add the function name and create a new role and click on Create Button.

Can you run Selenium headless Python?

Luckily, you can configure Selenium to run the Chrome web browser in headless mode. In this mode, the Chrome web browser will run without any graphical user interface. I will use the Selenium Python library and write the Selenium scripts using the Python 3 programming language.

How do I install Chrome on AWS Lambda?

Switch to Node. js, if only for this Lambda, and use alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda and Puppeteer. As AWS Lambda recently announced (2020) the Container Image Support, you can bring your own runtime for your Java code. Once you push this Docker Image to your ECR, you can create a Lambda function that uses your image.

How to run headless chrome on AWS Lambda?

The script automatically creates and deploys to the AWS Cloud a Python lambda function able to run Selenium and Headless Chrome. It is a bash script so it can run on Unix and MacOs but of course you can easily understand the logic behind it and create a similar version in other languages (e.g. PowerShell).

How can I run selenium on AWS Lambda?

This will automatically create, build and deploy the function to the AWS cloud. When the script finishes you will be able to see the AWS URL in the terminal. Click on it and a web page with the message {“message”: “hello world”} will be displayed.

Can you run headless Chrome without running selenium?

I created Serverless Framework (≥1.34.0) project to publish and use Lambda Layers with Selenium and Headless Chrome, thus team is able to do UI test using Python without running Selenium on server or local machine. Incompatible versions of serverless-chrome, chromedriver, and Selenium can cause Chrome not reachable error.

What’s the timeout limit for Lambda in AWS?

AWS has extended the timeout limit for Lambda functions from 5 to 15 minutes, also AWS released new Lambda layers feature at re:Invent 2018, with these new features, we can now move Selenium tests to server-less frameworks without any performance issues!