Chrome-Developer-Mode-Extension-Warning-Patcher VS playwright-dotnet

You can use a dll patcher like https://github.com/Ceiridge/Chrome-Developer-Mode-Extension-Warning-Patcher to re-enable webRequestBlocking extension API for Manifest V3 extensions on Chromium browsers

I'm surprised that this exception exists, and without an end date. Perversely, because they refuse to allow blocking webrequest even for local testing, anyone trying to use it to build one of those force-installed extensions has to resort to measures like hot-patching the browser at runtime, which, conveniently, also allows consumers to bypass this restriction anyway.

The blocking webRequest API will supposedly remain available in Brave and Vivaldi even once they move to MV3. In addition, it will be available in Chrome for anyone using https://github.com/Ceiridge/Chrome-Developer-Mode-Extension-Warning-Patcher though they will have to download the unpacked extension (or possibly crx) themselves.

Here's an interesting thread I found: https://github.com/Ceiridge/Chrome-Developer-Mode-Extension-Warning-Patcher/issues/21

Chrome will apparently continue to support blocking webRequest for enterprise extensions. Presumably this Chrome patcher could be modified to make it work with all extensions though you would have to get them from elsewhere such as Opera's addon site (or Brave, if they come up with their own).

in the meantime, this works really well for me

Playwright

Check out Playwright which is developed by Microsoft. It's like Selenium, but newer and maybe better. You can use it outside unit tests as a regular library.

SDET? Check out Playwright's .NET connector: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-dotnet

I'd suggest looking into https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-dotnet, it has been so much nicer to work with than Selenium.

I believe playwright can do the job, https://playwright.dev/dotnet/

Then you'd take that output and generate a PDF with Chrome: https://playwright.dev/dotnet/

If you've already got ASP.NET generating pages then you should try use this to save pages as PDF: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-dotnet

If you've ever wanted to pull data periodically from a website, or you are a QA automation person looking to do E2E (end to end) testing, then Playwright might be an option for you. Similar to Cypress or PhantomJS, Playwright is a library that allows you to automate ineractions with websites, you can even take screenshots and PDFs!