📅 2024-08-01 — Session: Configured Selenium and ChromeDriver on Ubuntu
🕒 14:10–15:05
🏷️ Labels: Selenium, Chromedriver, Ubuntu, Automation, Web Scraping
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The goal of this session was to configure Selenium and ChromeDriver on an Ubuntu system for web automation tasks, including handling existing Chrome sessions and resolving compatibility issues.
Key Activities
- Explored methods to prevent and mitigate web scraping, including simulating human behavior to bypass detection.
- Implemented automation scripts using Selenium to control Chrome, including opening new tabs and downloading content from multiple URLs.
- Connected Selenium to an existing Chrome session using user profiles and remote debugging ports.
- Detailed installation and configuration of ChromeDriver on Ubuntu, including verifying Chrome versions and resolving compatibility issues by updating or downgrading Chrome/ChromeDriver versions.
- Provided step-by-step guides and Python scripts for setting up and debugging Selenium with Chrome.
Achievements
- Successfully configured Selenium and ChromeDriver on Ubuntu for automated web tasks.
- Resolved potential compatibility issues between Chrome and ChromeDriver.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of the automation scripts to ensure robustness across different web environments.