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Probably also one of the reasons to start the Chrome project, though their headless variant isn't open source. Are there other headless browser beside PhantomJ
by frik 11y ago
Probably also one of the reasons to start the Chrome project, though their headless variant isn't open source.
Are there other headless browser beside PhantomJS? PhantomJS is based on webkit (Safari).
- jon-wood 11y agoChromium is Open Source and embeddable, so my guess is a big part of why their headless variant isn't open source is simply that there isn't really much to it.
- frik 11y agoFrom a naive point of view it's easy. But it has to scale and launching a new process for every request works only for a pet project. So a crawler based on a headless browser that consumes little memory and runs for weeks is a major achivement.
- manigandham 11y agoWhy doesn't that scale? You might be underestimating Google's resources.