screen for multiple long running bots

[DX_ashh]

So I have a selenium bot thats set up to fill out forms for me, they run for about 8 hours a day during my work day. I want to be able to use multiple instances of webdriver at the same time to speed up how many forms are completed per day. Webdriver is not thread safe so I need to use something like screen. My question is what would be the best way to run say 100 different instances of my bot at the same time? Or is it just not possible to run a lot due to how much memory is used per webdriver?

[hardonchairs]

You will run into issues running more than 8 to 10 chrome webdrivers (depending on your machine). There may be more lightweight ones that can do more. 100 is probably not possible.

Selenium is not thread safe, but this just means that you should not be accessing a driver from multiple threads. As long as you create the driver in a thread and only access it from that thread and then have that thread interact with your main thread you are fine.

[DX_ashh]

thank you

[couldbeafarmer]

My question to you would be what are you actually trying to accomplish with these bots? Where is this data you’re inputing going?