Running Selenium in Azure Function

Question

I want to periodically scrape a website with Selenium and a headless PhantomJS driver.
My boss wants me to run it "in the cloud" for reasons, and a serverless Azure Function looks like it could be a useful way to do it, instead of having to run a VM or something.

I've got my VS.net code to do the scraping mostly done, but I just realized that I'm not sure if I can actually deploy it as a function, since it looks like it wants me to include the phantomjs.exe in my project in order to run, which may not work in a Azure Function...

Can I do what I wanted to do, or should I explore other options?

Answer 1

PhantomJS is a known unsupported framework in App Service, which is the same environment Azure Functions runs on.

You can find more information here: https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Azure-Web-App-sandbox#unsupported-frameworks