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Reputation:

is it possible to run python code outside of electron application

So I created a desktop electron application with javascript html css etc I have a bot that I want to run when a button is clicked by the user the bot is written in python. what the bot does is web scraping using selenium and chrome driver im just wondering is there a way where I could store the bot and its source code outside the clients computer so the source code is not visible and still give the client the ability to use the bot to webscrape.

sorry if this is a rookie question im coming from c++ & swift mobile development and im a junior CS student so im just teaching myself new stuff.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1308

Answers (1)

Sellers
Sellers

Reputation: 163

I agree with Chris G in that it would be considered best practice to create a web app with one of Python's many web frameworks (Django, FastAPI, Flask, etc).

Alternatively, with the python-shell package this can be done quite simply with electron:

const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');
const pyshell = require('python-shell')

function createWindow() {
  window = new BrowserWindow({ width: 600, height: 450 });
  window.loadFile('index.html');
        
  pyshell.run('your_script.py', function (err, results) {
    if (err) {
      throw err;
    }
  });
}

app.on('ready', createWindow);

app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
  if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
    app.quit()
  }
}

Source

Then, with a simple python script your_script.py:

a = 'Foo'
b = 'Bar'
print(a + b)

This example is quite simple. Creating your own web facing API would be your best bet if you don't want to run into any compatibility issues when shipping your app.

Upvotes: 1

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