https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

Thank you for the comprehensive list.

Have you considered woob ('web outside of browsers')?

https://github.com/rbignon/woob
https://woob.tech/

Hi,
From the list options
What would be good alternatives for the "puppeteer"?

I basically need two things:
Set the agent and wait for the site to load completely!

await page.setUserAgent ('Mozilla / 5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit / 537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome / 61.0.3163.100 Safari / 537.36');
await page.goto ('https://www.site.org', {
         waitUntil: 'networkidle0',
});

But the "puppeteer" is spending a lot of resources 😅
Thanks in advance!

Although defining peformance tests is a hard task, I think it's one of the most useful information from which one to choose and would be a nice addition to this repo

Chrome has a headless mode now in Linux/macOS with version 59 released, and will be headless on Windows with version 60.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md

From their readme

Under the covers it uses Electron, which is similar to PhantomJS but roughly twice as fast and more modern. Because Nightmare uses Electron, it is your responsibility to ensure that the webpages loaded by Nightmare are not malicious. If you do load a malicious website, that website can execute arbitrary code on your computer.

Firstly thanks for your list, it really help.

1. as dalekjs readme it say no longer maintained and now it pointing to testCafe web testCafe repo.

testCafe mainly use typescript

2. Sadly phantom seems will not in active state as maintainer Announcement.

Before make a PR i like to ask, in my opinion it's good to have an additional info on the list. The main usage of the headlessbrowser. AFAIK the dalekjs and testCafe used to the web page, and the phantomjs have more wide usage.

I need the any opinion on this, hopefully we can restructure the list to have an additional info. 😄

Can someone add pyppeteer ?
https://github.com/miyakogi/pyppeteer

It's a port of puppeteer in python. Seems to be dead but still usable.

Hi
Just found your list via the Twitters - nice work! I don't see headless Chromium (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md) or JSDOM (https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom) and thought you might want to consider adding them?

Cheers

I've been working on Wendigo a Puppeteer wrapper to make testing easier.

I wanted to know if it was suitable for this list, as it is not a HeadlessBrowser itself, but a wrapper of one.

They are not fake browsers as they are using there own implementation of a stripped down browser to render javascript like for example what Splash is doing. right?

See https://github.com/graphcool/chromeless

Many of these are just "emulating" a browser to more or lesser extent, and some of them actually use the rendering engines of full standards-compliant browsers.

Basically, some of these browsers (nightmare comes to mind) use electron as their runtime, and electron requires a working X11 install!

Personally, I think if a browser requires X to be installed, it's not really headless, but in any event, this is a critical distinction for many use cases (I do a bit of browser automation, entirely in environments that don't have any X install whatsoever).

If a "headless" browser requires X and xvfb, at that point you might as well just run full chromium or firefox with webdriver or similar.

It'd be nice to disambiguate between "headless", as in "doesn't open a visible window" and actually headless, as in has no requirement for a framebuffer or X11/etc...

There are two more headless browsers for .net:

ScrapySharp (MIT)
https://github.com/rflechner/ScrapySharp
(works great, but unfortunately no JavaScript support)

Optimus (MIT)
https://github.com/RusKnyaz/Optimus
(allows to plug in different JavaScript implementations)

Mozilla Firefox has a headless mode:

• MDN: Headless mode
• Using Headless Mode in Firefox

It works well as a substitute for PhantomJS for automated testing.

Hello, I am trying to load my html page in order to send it as mail. I am using nodemailer for this job, and until now I was trying with puppeteer to retrieve the HTML of the page AFTER js has run. This is because 99.99% of my dom elements are created by js scripts.
I am not happy at all with puppeteer, the html I get after js still has all the scripts(they cant be sent over email), there is no easy way with pictures.
Even after creating by hand the html of the content I want, with nodemailer I dont get backgrounds and pictures, that is not on the topic but you might have some experience with something similar.
Which node module do you suggest i use for this implementation?

Headless Chrome is a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol made in Rust.

EDIT: Added a link.

http://dhamaniasad.github.io/HeadlessBrowsers not working

But consider the project https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum

After following this:

https://cat.ninja/using-selenium-with-headless-firefox-on-freebsd/

And many other tutorials I still cannot get what I need is that I want to get and save the content of a webpage using javascript, the way it looks like in the browser.

After spending hours on dead projects like console crawler and phantomjs I have found selenium, and it MIGHT be the solution for what I need but I still cannot get it to work.

OS: latest FreeBSD stable FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE

pkg install py36-pip
pip-3.6 install selenium
pkg install geckodriver
pkg install firefox-62.0.2,1

Example1:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.close()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "open.py", line 1, in <module>
    from selenium import webdriver
ImportError: No module named selenium

I try:

python3.6 a.sel
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "a.sel", line 5, in <module>
    br = webdriver.Firefox()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 162, in __init__
    keep_alive=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 154, in __init__
    self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 243, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 312, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: Unable to find a matching set of capabilities

Example 2

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

br = webdriver.Firefox()
br.get('http://www.google.com/')

save_me = ActionChains(br).key_down(Keys.CONTROL)\
         .key_down('s').key_up(Keys.CONTROL).key_up('s')
save_me.perform()

Let's start it with that these are python, why on earth this is not mentioned anywhere that this is freaking python, why cannot at very least a simple example be provided for opening a god damn webpage?!?