Deploy an application using Selenium

[Clément Delisle]

Hi guys,

I'm building a web app which is supposed to scrap data on a webpage. Usually i use Scrapy and I deploy my spider using Scraping Hub but in this particular case I can't use Scrapy so I would like to use Selenium.

I'm a beginner at using Selenium so I would like to know if it is easily possible to deploy an application using Selenium ?

Selenium is physically opening a browser (Scrapy is not) so I'm not really sure about that ?

Thanks for your help,

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

It depends on how you are deploying your application.

If you are basically using a web application [ say for e.g., Jenkins ] to deploy an application, then you should be able to spin off a browser, launch the web application (jenkins for e.g.,), and then trigger the deployment using it.

If your deployment is via some other mechanism, then Selenium is not the tool you need because its main use case is to help you interact with a web application via a web browser.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[Clément Delisle]

Thanks for your answer,

I have been looking for Jenkins docs and I found Sauce Labs, do you think it can be usefull ? It says that it is for Selenium testing. My projet is not really about testing but still, it is Selenium code so it should be ok ?

Thanks,

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

SauceLabs is just a remote execution environment ie., a mechanism using which you can have your browsers spawned in a remote machine and tests run against it. I dont think that's going to help you out here.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

"All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or in love with someone else!"
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