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Is there a light weight selenium web driver for linux? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selenium

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I had this question, found a privated reddit post, so I figured I'd ask again :)

I'm basically trying to figure out a minimal container that can load pages via selenium and take a screenshot.

"I am presently using a firefox gecko driver with python in ubuntu for my auto testing. The problem is it uses a very high memory about 150-350 mb and also cpu for a single site. Is there any lightweight selenium web drivers which uses less system resources? Can you recommend any? "

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is visiting a modern webpage even possible with much less RAM? Not sure you can shave off anything here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've never found any really light-weight browsers to actually work that well. But the web pages I was testing were always Angular based or other complicated JS stuff.

But.. give PhantomJS a shot. There's also a list of other headless browsers that you could try out: https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers