Install Chrome on Render Native Environment

render-build.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# exit on error
set -o errexit

STORAGE_DIR=/opt/render/project/.render

if [[ ! -d $STORAGE_DIR/chrome ]]; then
  echo "...Downloading Chrome"
  mkdir -p $STORAGE_DIR/chrome
  cd $STORAGE_DIR/chrome
  wget -P ./ https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  dpkg -x ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb $STORAGE_DIR/chrome
  rm ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  cd $HOME/project/src # Make sure we return to where we were
else
  echo "...Using Chrome from cache"
fi

# be sure to add Chromes location to the PATH as part of your Start Command
# export PATH="${PATH}:/opt/render/project/.render/chrome/opt/google/chrome"

# add your own build commands...

Thanks for the script. I was getting EOF errors when running dpkg -x so had to split the command for it to work.

ar x google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
tar -xf data.tar.xz -C $STORAGE_DIR/chrome

I was having an issue with this script with an error saying it couldnt locate the chrome driver. So I added this right under it and it worked!

if [[ ! -f $STORAGE_DIR/chromedriver/chromedriver ]]; then
  echo "...Downloading Chromedriver"
  mkdir -p $STORAGE_DIR/chromedriver
  cd $STORAGE_DIR/chromedriver
  wget https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/124.0.6367.78/linux64/chromedriver-linux64.zip
  unzip chromedriver-linux64.zip
  mv chromedriver-linux64/chromedriver .
  rm -r chromedriver-linux64 chromedriver-linux64.zip
else
  echo "...Using cached Chromedriver"
fi

cd $HOME/project/src

make sure the version of chrome driver matches the chrome driver. You can check that by adding this to your build.sh on render to see the version:

$STORAGE_DIR/chrome/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --version

Also be sure to correctly set paths in your selenium script to reflect this.