run selenium with crontab (python)

Question

I have a python script that calls chrome via selenium with the next line.

 ff = webdriver.Chrome(\'/home/user01/webScraping/CollectAndGo/chromedriver\')
         


        

Answer 1

selenium web drivers needs X session for running script. Cron scripts normally runs with out X session. Add X session in your cron script. Like as follows: * 11 * * * export DISPLAY=:0; your script.py