Headless browsing
Remarks:
Historically, other's have succeeded at using Chrome as a headless browser by running the process in a hidden display.
Invoking Chrome directly is not the only available option for using it as a headless browser. The Embedder API also alows one to use Chrome directly from the application's process.
Taking screenshots
The following will produce a PNG image in the current directory of the loaded page.
chrome --headless --screenshot https://stackoverflow.com
Interacting with documents
Using the --remote-debugging-port to expose a debugger accessible over HTTP is one way appliances can connect and interact with the document using the Chrome Debugging Protocol.
chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222 https://stackoverflow.com
You can then navigate to http://localhost:9222 and use Chrome DevTools interactively.
Syntax:
- chrome --headless $SWITCHES https://stackoverflow.com
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