Browser Automation

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  • chromedp

    A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol.

    I haven’t used Python for web scraping, however we’ve used https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp extensively with great success.

  • rod

    A Devtools driver for web automation and scraping

    I've used https://github.com/go-rod/rod with success. Recommended!

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  • playwright-go

    Playwright for Go a browser automation library to control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

    For python I used mechanize and later iteration, for go playwright is similar using a real headless browser which works very well.

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