Web driver / Chrome support?

[ajtatum]

I was excited to see this app in Cloudron as I was planning to install it myself, but when I tried to use web driver it said it couldn't be found. Is there a work around for this? I'm not familiar with the process, but could I upload a docker image to Cloudron and somehow point it to that? If not, then I guess my next options are to either self host or try browserless.io.

Let me know your thoughts...

[timconsidine]

@ajtatum I use ChangeDetection but not tried web driver.
It's an early release of ChangeDetection of Cloudron, so maybe some more features to come.

[robi]

what are the options for running web driver?

[girish]

@ajtatum @timconsidine Yes, the playwright integration is not done yet.

[ajtatum]

@girish How/where can I set the environment variable to be:

WEBDRIVER_URL="https://apikey@chrome.browserless.io/webdriver"

I tried in creating a .env but failed.

[ajtatum]

@girish - I went ahead and setup browserless.io self-hosted on another VM and am able to access it directly (with a token) or via Puppeteer via web sockets; however, there doesn't appear to be anyway to supply either an HTTP or WS URL to Change Detection. I've created a .env where I could, but the rest of the folder structure seems locked down and I can't find it when I log in as root onto the server. Any chance you can help out here? Just curious as, for my purposes, the app isn't very useful without webdriver in Cloudron or being able to supply a URL via environment config.

[girish]

@ajtatum please hold on a new update came out, I am just updating it and also adding .env support.

[girish]

Unfortunately, even the old package does not run anymore with a recent build. I am debugging as to why.

[ajtatum]

@girish Oh man, thank you for working on this. I honestly am super stoked about this!

[ajtatum]

@girish Any update by change? I managed to get browserless.io self hosted and have incorporated it into other projects, and would love to use it in Change Detection.

[ajtatum]

Sorry to be pestering, but any luck here? Would really love to use this app!

[3699n]

Would also love to see web driver support, even if it is via an external service!

[ajtatum]

Just wanted to let everyone know that getting this working in Portainer/docker compose is extremely easy and once I setup NGINX Proxy Manager (outside of Cloudron) it's pretty sweet.

Here's the docker compose script I used:

version: '3.3'
x-logging: &default-logging
  options:
    max-size: "200k"
    max-file: "10"
  driver: json-file
      
  changedetection:
      image: ghcr.io/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io:latest
      container_name: changedetection
      hostname: changedetection
      volumes:
        - changedetection-data:/datastore
      environment:
        - PORT=5000
        - PGID=${PGID}
        - PUID=${PUID}
        - TZ=${TZ}
        - WEBDRIVER_URL=http://browser-chrome:4444/wd/hub
        - PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL=ws://playwright-chrome:3000/?stealth=1&--disable-web-security=true
        - BASE_URL=http://192.168.195.150
      logging: *default-logging
      ports:
        - 5000:5000
      restart: unless-stopped
 
  browser-chrome:
    hostname: browser-chrome
    image: selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59
    environment:
       - VNC_NO_PASSWORD=1
       - SCREEN_WIDTH=1920
       - SCREEN_HEIGHT=1080
       - SCREEN_DEPTH=24
    logging: *default-logging
    volumes:
       - /dev/shm:/dev/shm
    restart: unless-stopped
 
  playwright-chrome:
      hostname: playwright-chrome
      image: browserless/chrome:latest
      restart: unless-stopped
      environment:
          - SCREEN_WIDTH=1920
          - SCREEN_HEIGHT=1024
          - SCREEN_DEPTH=16
          - ENABLE_DEBUGGER=false
          - PREBOOT_CHROME=true
          - CONNECTION_TIMEOUT=300000
          - MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS=10
          - CHROME_REFRESH_TIME=600000
          - DEFAULT_BLOCK_ADS=true
          - DEFAULT_STEALTH=true
      logging: *default-logging
      
volumes:
  changedetection-data:

PGID and PUID are 1000 in my use case. And TZ, for me, is set to America/New_York.

[andreasdueren]

@ajtatum This hasn't been implemented yet, correct?

[girish]

Looks like @vladimir-d has managed to get this working! Let's see if we can get an update out in the coming days.