[Feature Request] Study on headless browser.

[koch3092]

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Study on headless browser.

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[koch3092]

From wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_browser

A headless browser is a web browser without a graphical user interface.

Headless browsers provide automated control of a web page in an environment similar to popular web browsers, but they are executed via a command-line interface or using network communication.

They are able to render and understand HTML the same way a browser would, including styling elements such as page layout, color, font selection and execution of JavaScript and Ajax which are usually not available when using other testing methods.

Since version 59 of Google Chrome and version 56 of Firefox, there is native support for remote control of the browser.

Use cases

• Test automation in modern web applications.
• Taking screenshots of web pages.
• Running automated tests for JavaScript libraries.
• Automating interaction of web pages.

Usage

• Selenium WebDriver - a W3C compliant implementation of WebDriver
• Playwright - a Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit
• Puppeteer - a Node.js library to automate Chrome

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• Capybara uses headless browsing, either via WebKit or Headless Chrome to mimic user behavior in its testing protocols.
• Jasmine uses Selenium by default, but can use WebKit or Headless Chrome, to run browser tests.
• Cypress, a frontend testing framework.
• QF-Test, a software tool for automated testing of programs via the graphical user interface where a headless browser can also be used for testing.

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• Splash is a headless web browser written in Python using the WebKit layout engine via Qt. It has an HTTP API, Lua scripting support and a built-in IPython (Jupyter)-based IDE. Development started at ScrapingHub in 2013; it is partially funded by DARPA.
• Zombie.js is a simulated browser environment for Node.js.
• SimpleBrowser is a headless web browser written in C# supporting .NET Standard 2.0
• DotNetBrowser is a proprietary .NET Chromium-based library that provides the off-screen rendering mode and can be used without embedding or displaying windows.