Deploys the Python Selenium library and Chrome Headless to an AWS Lambda layer. You can specify the region, library version, and runtime. An example Lambda function is given.

README.md

After installation, run this:

aws lambda add-layer-version-permission --layer-name ChromeHeadless --statement-id xaccount --action lambda:GetLayerVersion  --principal "*" --version-number X --output text

chrome_headless.py

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

options = Options()

options.binary_location = '/opt/headless-chromium'
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--start-maximized')
options.add_argument('--start-fullscreen')
options.add_argument('--single-process')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

driver = Chrome('/opt/chromedriver', options=options)

chrome_headless_lambda_layer.sh

#!/bin/bash
REGION=eu-central-1
RUNTIME=python3.7
BUCKET=sillium-layers-miscellaneous

SELENIUM_VER=3.141.0
CHROME_BINARY_VER=v1.0.0-55 # based on Chromium 69.0.3497.81
CHROMEDRIVER_VER=2.43       # supports Chrome v69-71

OUT_DIR=/out/build/chrome_headless/python/lib/$RUNTIME/site-packages

docker run -v $(pwd):/out -it lambci/lambda:build-$RUNTIME \
    pip install selenium==$SELENIUM_VER -t $OUT_DIR

cp chrome_headless.py build/chrome_headless/python/chrome_headless.py

pushd build/chrome_headless

DRIVER_URL=https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/$CHROMEDRIVER_VER/chromedriver_linux64.zip
curl -SL $DRIVER_URL >chromedriver.zip
unzip chromedriver.zip
rm chromedriver.zip

# download chrome binary
CHROME_URL=https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome/releases/download/$CHROME_BINARY_VER/stable-headless-chromium-amazonlinux-2017-03.zip
curl -SL $CHROME_URL >headless-chromium.zip
unzip headless-chromium.zip
rm headless-chromium.zip

zip -r ../../chrome_headless.zip *
popd

aws s3 cp chrome_headless.zip s3://$BUCKET/chrome_headless.zip

aws lambda publish-layer-version \
    --layer-name ChromeHeadless \
    --region $REGION \
    --content S3Bucket=$BUCKET,S3Key=chrome_headless.zip \
    --compatible-runtimes $RUNTIME

rm -rf build *.zip

lambda_function.py

from chrome_headless import driver


def lambda_handler(event, context):

    driver.get(event['url'])
    return driver.page_source