Streamlit and Selenium Integration and Debugging

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📅 2025-07-14 — Session: Streamlit and Selenium Integration and Debugging

🕒 00:05–01:10
🏷️ Labels: Streamlit, Selenium, Debugging, Headless, Web Scraping
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to enhance the integration between Streamlit applications and Selenium-based web scraping scripts, focusing on debugging and deployment in headless environments.

Key Activities

  • Aligned YAML configuration files for PromptFlow to ensure compatibility.
  • Resolved StoreConnectionEncryptionKeyError by implementing the keyrings.alt package.
  • Configured BYOK deployment for PromptFlow without a system keyring.
  • Set up environment variables to prevent keyring errors in Streamlit apps.
  • Explored strategies for browser automation in headless environments using Selenium and Playwright.
  • Debugged deployed applications by accessing live consoles in various hosting environments.
  • Created a minimal Streamlit debugger page with an embedded REPL for effective debugging.
  • Transitioned Selenium scripts to headless mode for deployment in Streamlit environments.
  • Updated Selenium WebDriver initialization to use a Service object.

Achievements

  • Successfully configured environment variables and key management for PromptFlow and Streamlit.
  • Developed a lightweight debug console in Streamlit for enhanced debugging capabilities.
  • Improved Selenium script deployment by transitioning to headless mode.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing of the headless Selenium setup in diverse cloud environments.
  • Implementation of additional error handling and logging in the CLI app script.

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