Thoughts on Go headless browser tools for testing and scraping?

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  1. chromedp

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

    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?

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  3. playwright-go

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

    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?

  4. selenoid

    Discontinued Selenium Hub successor running browsers within containers. Scalable, immutable, self hosted Selenium-Grid on any platform with single binary.

    On a related note, there's selenoid used for launching browsers in docker containers: https://github.com/aerokube/selenoid

  5. rod

    A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.

    I don't have personal experience, but https://github.com/go-rod/rod is far more active than chromedp

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