What Is a Headless Browser and How to Use It?

Ready to automate your web testing? Or maybe you have a web scraping task where you need to deal with dynamic AJAX pages or data nested in JavaScript elements? Then you probably heard about headless browsers. In this video we'll explain what is a headless browser and how to use it for web testing and web scraping.

In this video:
0:00 Intro
0:19 What is a headless browser?
1:00 What is a headless browser used for?
1:46 Do you always need to use a headless browser when web scraping?
2:33 The best headless browser libraries

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[Proxyway]

So have you already tried web scraping using a headless browser? Let us know how it went!

[nickonastick]

i've tried selenium before, very intuitive with python! tho calling it a browser is a little confusing to me since you still need a regular browser to run it, thanks for the video! i will try out the other two

[MrRossss]

Are there any that can be used client side ideally in a chrome extension?

[cyberemon]

I think Selenium is the standard, been using it for a few projects involving js web apps. Also it's easy to find answers on stackoverflow cause everyone is using it.

[gregbuzgin]

plot twist: the host is actually nearly headless nick

[friendlyitguy]

Used headless browsers before but now I stick with Beautiful Soup because it uses less resources and is overall easier to set up on a server.