Selenium + ChromeDriver + Xvfb run on ubuntu server without X11

Install Chrome

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

apt-get update

apt-get install -f

Install pip

apt-get install python-pip

Install Selenium

export LC_ALL=C

pip install selenium 

Install Xvfb

apt-get install xvfb

Download ChromeDriver

wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.34/chromedriver_linux64.zip

unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip

 Run Xvfb

Xvfb :22

Test selenium
attention: google chrome will crash if running under root user. Switch user first  if your are root.

export DISPLAY=:22
python
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdrvier.Chrome("./chromedriver")
driver.get("http://www.baidu.com")

#should return https protocl url
driver.execute_script("return window.location")

#should return an element
driver.execute_script("return document.getElementById('kw')")