chromedp-gen is a standalone cli tool for the chromedp package that generates the types for the chrome domain APIs as defined in Chrome's protocol.json.

Updating protocol.json

Run update.sh to retrieve and combine the latest browser_protocol.json and js_protocol.json from the Chromium source tree into protocol.json.

Installing dependencies

chromedp-gen uses the cli tools qtc for code generation templates, easyjson for JSON marshaling/unmarshaling, and goimports for formatting generated code (and fixing import statements).

The cli commands (and their associated dependencies) can be installed in the usual Go way:

go get -u github.com/valyala/quicktemplate/qtc github.com/mailru/easyjson/easyjson golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports

Please make sure that $GOPATH/bin is somewhere on your $PATH.

Generating types for chromedp

Assuming the qtc, easyjson, and goimports commands are available on $PATH (see above), one can then run the build.sh which will handle generating template files, and building/invoking the chromedp-gen command.

Reference Output

The output of running update.sh and build.sh is below:

ken@ken-desktop:~/src/go/src/github.com/knq/chromedp/cmd/chromedp-gen$ ./update.sh
# download
curl -s $BROWSER_PROTO | base64 -d > $BROWSER_TMP
curl -s $JS_PROTO | base64 -d > $JS_TMP

# merge browser_protocol.json and js_protocol.json
jq -s '[.[] | to_entries] | flatten | reduce .[] as $dot ({}; .[$dot.key] += $dot.value)' $BROWSER_TMP $JS_TMP > $OUT

# convert boolean values listed as strings to real booleans
# (this is not used in favor of using the custom Bool type that correctly JSON unmarshals the value)
# left here for completeness
#perl -pi -e 's/"\s*:\s*"(true|false)"/": \1/g' $OUT
ken@ken-desktop:~/src/go/src/github.com/knq/chromedp/cmd/chromedp-gen$ ./build.sh
go generate
qtc: 2017/01/29 09:10:16 Compiling *.qtpl template files in directory "templates"
qtc: 2017/01/29 09:10:16 Compiling "templates/domain.qtpl" to "templates/domain.qtpl.go"...
qtc: 2017/01/29 09:10:16 Compiling "templates/extra.qtpl" to "templates/extra.qtpl.go"...
qtc: 2017/01/29 09:10:16 Compiling "templates/file.qtpl" to "templates/file.qtpl.go"...
qtc: 2017/01/29 09:10:16 Compiling "templates/type.qtpl" to "templates/type.qtpl.go"...
qtc: 2017/01/29 09:10:16 Total files compiled: 4

go build

time ./chromedp-gen
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.getCookies [redirect:Network]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.deleteCookie [redirect:Network]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.setDeviceMetricsOverride [redirect:Emulation]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.clearDeviceMetricsOverride [redirect:Emulation]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.setGeolocationOverride [redirect:Emulation]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.clearGeolocationOverride [redirect:Emulation]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.setDeviceOrientationOverride [redirect:DeviceOrientation]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.clearDeviceOrientationOverride [redirect:DeviceOrientation]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command Page.setTouchEmulationEnabled [redirect:Emulation]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command param Emulation.setDeviceMetricsOverride.offsetX [deprecated]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command param Emulation.setDeviceMetricsOverride.offsetY [deprecated]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command param Tracing.start.categories [deprecated]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping command param Tracing.start.options [deprecated]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 skipping domain Console (console) [deprecated]
2017/01/29 09:10:17 running goimports
2017/01/29 09:10:31 running easyjson (stubs)
2017/01/29 09:10:31 running easyjson
2017/01/29 09:10:39 done.

real	0m22.318s
user	1m15.132s
sys	0m53.592s

go install ../../cdp/...
ken@ken-desktop:~/src/go/src/github.com/knq/chromedp/cmd/chromedp-gen$