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Installing headless chrome on Ubuntu.
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#!/bin/bash | |
# from https://chromium.woolyss.com/ | |
# and https://gist.github.com/addyosmani/5336747 | |
# and https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md | |
sudo apt-get update | |
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common | |
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-chromium-builds/stage | |
sudo apt-get update | |
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser | |
chromium-browser --headless --no-sandbox http://example.org/ |
thanks
Do yourselves a favour and switch to Microsoft Edge, Chromium underneath and a proper deb package
@ktechmidas oh man... That's hilarious, thanks for the great advice!
The only difficulty I had with installing Microsoft Edge + WebDriver into a CI docker — it wasn't easy to contain the primal laughter of me doing such a fun thing — otherwise, it actually went silky smooth! 🤣
Way smoother than dealing with google's utterly borked apt repos, at any rate.
FROM python:3.10
#-- Add Microsoft's deb package signing key -- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/packages
RUN wget https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc -O - \
| gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft-packages.gpg --import -
#-- Add APT package repository
RUN echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/microsoft-packages.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable main' \
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge.list
#-- Refresh index, install latest stable Microsoft Edge
RUN apt-get update && \
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends microsoft-edge-stable
#-- Install WebDriver -- matching version as Edge we just installed
RUN set -x; \
EDGE_VERSION=$(dpkg-query --showformat='${Version}' --show microsoft-edge-stable | sed s/-1$//) && \
WEBDRIVER=https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/127.0.2651.107/edgedriver_linux64.zip && \
echo "Edge version $EDGE_VERSION" && \
echo "WebDriver $WEBDRIVER" && \
wget $WEBDRIVER -O /tmp/webdriver.zip && \
unzip /tmp/webdriver.zip msedgedriver -d /usr/local/bin/ && \
rm -vf /tmp/webdriver.zip && \
ls -l `which msedgedriver`
#-- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webdriver-chromium/
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Also easy to find more pedestrian guides, here's one https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-microsoft-edge-on-debian-linux/
... This is so cool, ⭐ https://github.com/microsoft/linux-package-repositories
Anyway, awesome tip, thanks again!
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@phd Done, thank you!