Selenium Flask

Deploy a lightweight Selenium + Flask scraper on Railway: headless Chromium, optimized Chrome flags, simple Flask route, and a clean blueprint for web scraping projects.

Features

• Headless Chromium + Chromedriver already installed

• Chrome flags tuned for low-memory container environments

• Simple Flask route (/scrape) as Selenium scraping example

• Minimal and reproducible Dockerfile

• $PORT-aware Flask server

Endpoints

Route	Description
/	Basic health/status check
/scrape	Example scraper using Selenium (scrapethissite.com)

File Structure

.
├── Dockerfile
├── main.py
└── requirements.txt

How It Works

• Chromium & Chromedriver installed via apt
• Headless Chrome launched with safe container flags
• Selenium loads the webpage through controlled browser automation
• Selenium retrieves page HTML directly for processing
• Flask provides simple HTTP routes for triggering scrapes

Notes

• Suitable as a base template for any Selenium + Flask scraping workflow
• Add request throttling or queueing if workloads become heavy
• Ideal for small-scale, browser-based scraping or automation tasks