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Selenium is famously unreliable, so a lot of people have been replacing it with headless chrome where they can.
by nicoburns 5y ago
Selenium is famously unreliable, so a lot of people have been replacing it with headless chrome where they can.
- melomal 5y agoInteresting. I was about to start on some web automation and so far I've had hammered into my head that Selenium is the 'language of the internet' or something along those lines. What would be a better solution, if you have any to recommend?
- xzel 5y agoI'd suggest Puppeteer / Playwright. Both are great. Iirc the puppeteer team largely moved to playwright.
- kjkjadksj 5y agoPuppeteer is frustrating to me. When I tried to use it I couldn’t get it to click buttons, but I did get it to hover on the button so I know I had the correct element in my code. Their click function just did nothing at all. I resorted to tabbing a certain amount of times and hitting enter.
- melomal 5y agoThank you for the suggestions! I will check them out.
- gcatalfamo 5y agoI have been using selenium with chromedriver, I mistakenly thought those were basically the same thing. Can you tell me more?