chromedpvsselenium-driverless
ChromeDP is an open-source library for driving browsers using the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) in the Go programming language. It is a high-level library that abstracts away the low-level details of interacting with the CDP and provides a simple, intuitive API for performing common browser automation tasks such as clicking elements, filling out forms, and taking screenshots.
ChromeDP also supports parallel execution of browser tasks, making it well-suited for large-scale web scraping and testing applications. It is considered as one of the most popular Go package for automation and scraping tasks.
Selenium Driverless is a Selenium inspired browser automation library with focus on web scraping detection bypass. It shares most of Selenium API and UX but implements several extensions that make the scraper more difficult to detect and extra usability features like: - Bypass Cloudflare - Multiple Tab scraping - Multiple context support - Proxy auth - Network interception
Example Use
package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"github.com/chromedp/chromedp"
)
func main() {
var title, firstParagraph string
// create context
ctx, cancel := chromedp.NewContext(context.Background())
defer cancel()
// run task list (a scraping scenario)
err := chromedp.Run(ctx,
// go to page
chromedp.Navigate("https://www.example.com"),
// wait for element to load
chromedp.WaitVisible("body"),
// extract text from an element (css selector)
chromedp.Text("title", &title),
// extract first paragraph element
chromedp.First(chromedp.ByTagName("p"), &firstParagraph),
)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("error:", err)
return
}
fmt.Printf("Title: %s\n", title)
fmt.Printf("First paragraph: %s\n", firstParagraph)
}
# It works the same as Selenium just with a different import.
import undetected_chromedriver as uc
driver = uc.Chrome(headless=True, use_subprocess=False)
driver.get('https://nowsecure.nl')
driver.save_screenshot('screenshot.png')
driver.close()