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Use selenium in Colab
# install chromium, its driver, and selenium
!apt update
!apt install libu2f-udev libvulkan1
!wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
!dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
!wget https://edgedl.me.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/chrome-for-testing/118.0.5993.70/linux64/chromedriver-linux64.zip
!unzip -j chromedriver-linux64.zip chromedriver-linux64/chromedriver -d /usr/local/bin/
!pip install selenium chromedriver_autoinstaller
# set options to be headless, ..
from selenium import webdriver
import chromedriver_autoinstaller
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
chromedriver_autoinstaller.install()
# open it, go to a website, and get results
wd = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
wd.get("https://www.website.com")
print(wd.page_source) # results
# divs = wd.find_elements_by_css_selector('div')
# I create my own library to make it even easier
!pip install kora -q
from kora.selenium import wd
wd.get("https://www.website.com")
print(wd.page_source) # results
# I add a few helpers
divs = wd.select("div") # css selecter
div = divs[0]
span = div.select1("span") # return the first result
wd # screenshot
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getting the same error as above-mentioned :/

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korakot commented Mar 26, 2024

I have updated the solution, so it should work again now.

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