How to get Selenium work with Spring boot? - spring

Question

I'm trying to scrape some data and display it on my spring boot app however the workings of Selenium seems to be different than the usual Java program. I'm getting all sorts of errors while trying to implement Selenium. Also, should I put chromedriver.exe under resources?
Web scraping class
#Service
public class WebScrape {
final static private String url = "https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/";
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
public List<Data>getAllData(){
return allData;
}
}
pom.xml
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-api</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Edit: Even with Selenium in Pom and default spring boot dependency, the import statements do not work

Answer 1

If you run your Selenium code as part of application logic itself you should not provide test scope to your dependencies. Use compile.
When you use test scope, your libraries are only included when you run test phase.