How to use Selenium Webdriver on Heroku?

Question

I am developing a Node.js app, and I use Selenium Webdriver on it for scraping purposes. However, when I deploy on Heroku, Selenium doesn\'t work. How can I make Selenium work o

Answer 1

I was able to get the Selenium Webdriver working on Node/Heroku using PhantomJs as the headless browser. I installed the PhantomJs buildpack to my Heroku app and it just worked. I struggled to get Chrome and Firefox drivers working on Heroku... I wrote a blog with the steps and code I used to get it working:

http://www.viderman.com/2017/05/selenium-on-heroku.html