Service /opt/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127 Error when running selenium on aws lambda python3.8

Question

I am using this part of code to run selenium on aws lambda with runtime 3.8

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

def handler(event, context):
    options = Options()
    options.binary_location = '/opt/headless-chromium'
    options.add_argument('--headless')
    options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
    options.add_argument('--single-process')
    options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

    driver = webdriver.Chrome('/opt/chromedriver',chrome_options=options)
    driver.get('https://www.google.com/')

    driver.close();
    driver.quit();

    response = {
        "statusCode": 200,
        "body": "Selenium Headless Chrome Initialized"
    }

    return response

but it gives /opt/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127 error every time i run it. any idea about this? is selenium compatible with python3.8

Milksop

How have you added these binaries to the Lambda execution environment? They are not the typical paths used by layers. Are you using you own container deployment? – Mcglone

@MarkSailes Yes I have added binaries and I am using container deployment. The issue is I have added Selenium , chromium and headless-chromium as layer , the same thing works with python 3.7 but gives error when i change runtiome to python3.8 – Milksop

#66328944 -> this thread with the same compatibility issue discussion says that there is an issue with python3.8 compatibility so I just want to confirm that if it is actually true or merely random assumptions – Milksop

Answer 1

AWS gives us the option to set up specific runtime for each lambda function. working perfectly in python 3.7.

Milksop