Cannot find Chrome binary

[quebonafide]

I deployed my Flask app and everything works fine until I try to use webdriver.chrome(). I think I have tried everything, including render-build.sh and the start command provided in this Installing Headless chromium w/o docker, but I still get an error: File "/opt/render/project/src/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 245, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary.

Perhaps the issue is that I am not building the web service properly. Should I include render-build.sh somewhere in the deploy settings (I’m not using Docker)?
I also tried adding the ChromeDriver binary to the project and then run command like this: browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/chromedriver"), but it didn’t work either. Maybe the problem is the path to the project on the host, which I cannot check because I don’t have SSH access to the server in the free trial (maybe there’s other way to check it).

Currently, my requirements.txt contains among others: Flask==2.2.3 gunicorn==20.1.0 pyinstaller==5.8.0 requests==2.28.2 selenium==4.8.0 webdriver-manager==3.8.5,
start command is:export PATH="${PATH}:/opt/render/project/.render/chrome/opt/google/chrome"; gunicorn wsgi:frontend,
build command is : pip install -r requirements.txt.
and i’m running driver like this service = Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()) driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service) as is says in here: Getting Chrome in PATH
Please help!"

[al_ps]

Hi,

If your Build Command is just pip install -r requirements.txt, then you’re missing the Chrome install script that mentioned in the post you shared: https://community.render.com/t/installing-headless-chromium-w-o-docker/5185.

On a Render Native Environment Chrome will need to be installed (or pulled from the build cache) on each deploy, which is what that script does.

Alan