Selenium: How to use Headless Chrome on AWS?

Question

Today I saw the message UserWarning: Selenium support for PhantomJS has been deprecated, please use headless versions of Chrome or Firefox instead.

I am wil

Answer 1

Create a new EC2 instance.

SSH log into the machine.

Install python, selenium, chromedriver, chromium, and python packages what you need.

sudo apt install chromium-chromedriver

Copy your python script to the machine.

Edit the script and add an chromeoption.

import selenium as se

options = se.webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')

driver = se.webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

Done!