Thoughts on Go headless browser tools for testing and scraping?

• chromedp

  27 10,341 5.5 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?

• playwright-go

  8 1,774 7.5 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?

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• selenoid

  4 2,491 6.7 Go

  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

• rod

  20 4,750 7.9 Go

  A Devtools 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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