Streamlit and Selenium Integration and Debugging

• Day: 2025-07-14
• Time: 00:05 to 01:10
• Project: Dev
• Workspace: WP 2: Operational
• Status: Completed
• Priority: MEDIUM
• Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
• Tags: Streamlit, Selenium, Debugging, Headless, Web Scraping

Description

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.

Evidence

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