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Selenium allows you to automate a real browser and capture the responses, hell if need be you can create a fake profile with Chrome and make it complete
by WalterGR 11y ago
Selenium allows you to automate a real browser and capture the
responses, hell if need be you can create a fake profile with Chrome
and make it completely indistinguishable.
Are there no headless browsers that let you accomplish the same thing? Honest question...
I've used Selenium, but I just assumed that headless browsers were exactly: real browsers minus the UI.
- noir_lord 11y agoQuite possibly but I use selenium extensively during dev to automate boring tasks (filling in forms over and over is boring) as well as for integration and functional testing. So I had a hammer and the problem looked like a nail. ;)
- user_0001 11y agoheadless browsers are easy to identify. The best you have to not be ID'd and "kinda headless" is slimer or selenium to XVFB, which aren't really headless but sort of [edit] slimer [AND] selenium to [OR]