How to host chrome driver on azure runbook and which chrome driver version should I use?

Question

Hi,

I have python scripts that I want to scrape the website via Azure runbook.
I want to know how I can host the chrome driver in the runbook, which version should I use so that I can run the python scripts from there.

Could you please guide me?

Thank you!

Answer 1

Happy to help, @bptsai - curious to know if there's a specific business need to host the chrome driver inside the runbook. If not, then I recommend hosting the driver locally then reference the driver path via your python script. Check out this community solution as a guide.

1. Download ChromeDriver here: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads
2. Here are the available options on how to reference downloaded driver via python script:
   • add downloaded driver to your system path
   • save the driver in same directory as your python script
   • specify the location directly via executable_path
     e.g. driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='C:/path/to/chromedriver.exe')

Also ref: Create Python runbook