What are you using headless Chrome for?
The headless version of chrome has seen great adoption since it was launched 4-5 years ago. I am wondering what types of use cases it is being used for.
Running automated tests is one the most common use cases I am familiar with. Are there any other purposes folks are using it for?
I am also curious about large scale cloud deployments use cases for headless chrome that the HN crowd might be aware of.
Generating diagrams from Markdown files using the Mermaid JS library. They have a CLI but it's NPM based so you basically have to pick your poison as to what you'll be configuring. In my case Chrome made more sense.
I used it for creating PDFs at my last job.
I use it to interface and download reports and other data on behalf of customers from sites that don't have any type of 3rd party api.
I use it to get rendered web pages I want to scrap.
I use it for a trading bot on Fifa 2020 Fut mode
I use it to test my Content-Security-Policy by crawling my whole site and capturing any violation reports that are sent.
I use it to archive complex web pages.