Autotest with Selenium on Raspberry Pi

Looks like if you can install Linux on a thing, you can run Selenium on it

Having Kubuntu (or other Ubuntu derivative) installed to a Raspberry Pi 4, it is actually pretty easy to run Selenium on it.

Instructions

In order to do this, you must have python3 and preferrably have python3-venv installed, and selenium, too:

sudo apt install python3 python3-venv python3-selenium

I prefer running python3 scripts in virtual environment, so let’s create dir for tests and venv in it:

mkdir autotests; cd autotests
python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

Now, let’s install latest Selenium into it:

pip3 install -U selenium

Put a script into this directory, e.g. this one which I’ve got from a Skillshare class:

vi scrape_table.py

File contents:

from selenium import webdriver
import time

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

driver.get('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_member_states_by_GDP_growth')
time.sleep(1)

table = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//table[@class='wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter']")

for row in table.find_elements_by_xpath(".//tr"):
    for td in row.find_elements_by_xpath(".//td"):
        print(td.text)
    print("\n")

Now, run the script, and voila, it runs on Raspberry Pi!

python3 scrape_table.py