Open Arpanio opened 1 year ago
I could setup Ubuntu using Windows Subsystem for Linux, and get around the Selenium issues (mostly. Scraping still stops with no error messages but at least python-selenium
is able to bind with Chrome).
Combined with VSCode and the wsl plugin, I think devs with Windows machines can get unblocked from contributing. We need not worry with maintaining the project for Windows, Mac, and Linux and only focus on Mac and Linux.
Listing down instructions here for reference. I'll work on updating the readme
later:
ctrl + `
will then open up terminal that's zsh on Ubuntu instead of Powershell on Windows.
I ran into the following error when trying to convert the
rfp_scraper.ipynb
notebook to a python script:rfp_scraper.ipynb
works fine. It's probably due to some invisible Jupyter Notebook shenanigans that's missing when running from a plain.py
file (so annoying).Whether this should be fixed or not is an open question. I'm reporting this for visibility since at least 1 other developer is using Windows. I believe the goal is to deploy the scraper to a linux machine, so it would probably be a better use of time for me to setup a Linux VM instead.