[SOLVED] Headless Web Browser

brokenkeys · 10-01-2019, 01:13 PM

Anyone knows if there is a "headless" web browser for bash where you
could for example simulate clicks at specific coordinates, or get html node object
at coordinates, get node data, insert text if node is input ..?

Thanks

MensaWater · 10-01-2019, 02:16 PM

There are "command line" browsers such as curl, wget, lynx.

Anything that requires a GUI environment but needs to be run in background you can use Xvfb to run.

When I did a web search for the terms:
using xvfb to simulate web traffic

It returned one that talks about using Xvfb but that appeared specific to one product (Selenium). It did return other hits that might be helpful to you that talk about "headless" browsing tests.

brokenkeys · 10-01-2019, 03:11 PM

Thanks, did not know about Xvfb.
Meanwhile, I've found this list:

https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers

englianhu · 01-11-2022, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brokenkeys

Thanks, did not know about Xvfb.
Meanwhile, I've found this list:

https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers

useful, thx~

Red Squirrel · 01-11-2022, 09:09 PM

There is a Python library called Selenium that lets you do this, for automating browser stuff. I have not played with it myself but want to at some point for a project. Could look into that.