About chromedp

Package chromedp is a faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol in Go using the without external dependencies (ie, Selenium, PhantomJS, etc).

Installing

Install in the usual Go way:

go get -u git.loafle.net/commons_go/chromedp

Examples

Please see the examples project for more examples. Please refer to the GoDoc API listing for a summary of the API and Actions, which also contains a few simple and runnable examples.

Resources

• chromedp: A New Way to Drive the Web - GopherCon SG 2017 talk
• Chrome DevTools Protocol - Chrome DevTools Protocol Domain documentation
• chromedp examples - various chromedp examples
• github.com/chromedp/cdproto - GoDoc listing for the CDP domains used by chromedp
• github.com/chromedp/cdproto-gen - tool used to generate cdproto
• git.loafle.net/commons_go/chromedp-proxy - a simple CDP proxy for logging CDP clients and browsers

TODO

• Implement more query selector options (allow over riding context timeouts)
• Contextual actions for "dry run" (or via an accumulator?)
• Network loader / manager
• Profiler