Thoughts on Go headless browser tools for testing and scraping?

1. chromedp

   1 31 12,030 6.7 Go

   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?

2. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

3. playwright-go

   2 8 2,805 6.5 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

   3 4 2,619 6.5 Go

   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

   4 23 6,086 7.7 Go

   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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