wrp
Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web (by tenox7)
chromedp
A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol. (by chromedp)
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| wrp | chromedp | |
|---|---|---|
| 52 | 27 | |
| 981 | 10,320 | |
| - | 1.8% | |
| 6.2 | 5.5 | |
| 3 months ago | 28 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wrp
Posts with mentions or reviews of wrp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-17.
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Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN
https://github.com/tenox7/wrp allows you to use modern js as well, as long as you can render images
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The Future of the Web Is VNC
I use this for retrocomputing, in a way, to be very silly! tenox7's WRP [Web Rendering Proxy] basically runs headless Chrome and renders pages to gif/png/jpg and shoves them back at a client browser.
- Connect to internet
- A buddy gave me his 2011 MBP to upgrade for him, so I stuck in an SSD and 8gb RAM, and with the help of Opencore Legacy Patcher, I got Ventura running great on it! If you have an old Mac, I would really recommend doing this, they still have a lot of life left in them!
- 16 bit Netscape Navigator for Windows 3.1 still can browse the web
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Old iPad as a Grafana Dashboard
Searching led me to the open source project WRP. This is a browser-in-browser "proxy" server that allows to use old web browsers on the modern web. It works by rendering a web page in to a GIF or PNG image with a clickable imagemap.
- Textual web browser on ESP32?
- Retro Operating Systems
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Just got Windows 3.11 onto the Internet! Netscape Navigator 2.02 (Google crashed the browser)
https://theoldnet.com/ https://github.com/tenox7/wrp https://github.com/DrKylstein/retro-proxy
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Older iPads May Soon Be Able to Run Linux
This is basically what is done in the vintage computer world…
chromedp
Posts with mentions or reviews of chromedp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
- Web scraping with Go
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Web Crawler in Go: Extracting Keyword-Relevant Text with Text Density
There are a billion things that you need to consider when building a decent web crawler, especially interacting with pages in the modern web. For example, a lot of content is dynamically loaded by the browser nowadays, and won't show up if you make a simple HTTP request. Open your browser devtools and look at the network tab after you make a request, and you'll see it makes loads of auxiliary requests. Some content is also only loaded after you interact with it (e.g. hover, click). For that reason I'd recommend using something like chromedp and do browser based crawling, even if it's much slower.
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Web Automation: Don't Use Selenium, Use Playwright
Thanks. I've found Chromedp [0] to be a good Selenium replacement when programming in Go. Used in conjunction with HeadlessShell [1] you can deploy a Go app into a container and do the testing all within the same container with low overhead.
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Run single JS func in Go app
Is it node specific? Could you just use https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp and run it as an actually webpage and get the value from that?
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Thoughts on Go headless browser tools for testing and scraping?
It looks like https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp is the most popular option. There's also https://github.com/playwright-community/playwright-go. Any thoughts or advice about using these tools?
- Is it possible to scrape a website protected by Cloudflare?
- Is there a library similar to HTMLUnit in GO?
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Easiest way to MITM my browser requests/responses using Go
The alternative is to drive, for example, Chrome with the DevTools protocol (using something like https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp or https://github.com/raff/godet (this is my version of a DevTools driver).
- Web scraping libraries
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Scrape and automate with golang
Docs are kind of meh but I always have a good time “remote controlling” chrome with this https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wrp and chromedp you can also consider the following projects:
rod - A Devtools driver for web automation and scraping
ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!
go-selenium - Selenium WebDriver client for Go
cdp - Package cdp provides type-safe bindings for the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), written in the Go programming language.
playwright-go - Playwright for Go a browser automation library to control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
colly - Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang
browservice - Browservice: Browse the modern web on historical browsers
gomate.io - Behavior-driven development tool for GoLang
realize - Realize is the #1 Golang Task Runner which enhance your workflow by automating the most common tasks and using the best performing Golang live reloading.
httpexpect - End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.
godet - Remote client for Chrome DevTools
prettybenchcmp - cmd tool for automatic storage and comparison of benchmarks results