docker-selenium VS browserless

Edit: I got some parts of it running. This video is very helpful. I gave up on the official docker repository for change detection io and switched to the LSIO version. I had to first install and run the docker Selenium container (available here). I installed the standalone version of Chrome from that page. Now I added one line to the docker-compose.yml in the environment section (as mentioned in the video. I did not add BASE_URL) and that was "WEBDRIVER_URL=http://192.168.1.15:4444" (this has to be an actual IP address, can't use "localhost" or anything else. I redeployed the container and the webdriver worked.

Selenium with Docker Selenium Grid https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium. Isolated and scalable.

Next is the image that we are using to run the docker command. Here we are using the Selenium Firefox standalone image with tag 4.0.0-rc-1-prerelease-20210618. More information about the latest versions available can be found from the official Selenium Github repository and the Docker hub public registry.

If you run your own, you need to account for your computer's processing power. That is the bottleneck. Check out this repo for more info. https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium

Same. I had sucess with https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium

If you look on selenium's dockerhub, there are many images to chose from which are much newer. As far as I'm concerned, that image is abandoned and I would definitely not use it. Not saying it is the reason for whatever happened to you, but kind of shocking that change detection is recommending it.

Playwright has a limitation that restricts running tests in Selenium Grid to only the version prior to 4.5.2-20221021 (at the time of this writing - February/2023).

I literally clicked on your link, followed the instructions and found this.

The core product is managed, cloud hosted browsers. We run thousands at a time using AWS and DigitalOcean, for people to use with Puppeteer and Playwright scripts. Our container is also available to self deploy under an open-source license.

You should search for "Puppeteer as a service", there are some projects on github that you could deploy such as https://github.com/browserless/chrome

So I recently installed ChangeDetectioIO on my server, it requires either selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59 or browserless/chrome. I installed it with Selenium in a docker container since I noticed that it was running better than the browserless/chrome service.

I had a look to this one: https://github.com/browserless/chrome ... but it is not suitable for builds, e.g. set to production mode, user permissions and so on.

git clone https://github.com/browserless/chrome /opt/browserless