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Issue 2697533002: headless: Add Node.js example (Closed)
Patch Set: Created 3 years, 10 months ago
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Index: headless/README.md
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@@ -23,6 +23,37 @@ missing Mesa library.
[DevTools](https://developer.chrome.com/devtools) interface or use a tool such
as [Selenium](http://www.seleniumhq.org/) to drive the headless browser.
+## Usage from Node.js
+
+For example, the [chrome-remote-interface](https://github.com/cyrus-and/chrome-remote-interface)
+Node.js package can be used to extract a page's DOM like this:
+
+```
+const CDP = require('chrome-remote-interface');
+
+CDP((client) => {
+ // Extract used DevTools domains.
+ const {Page, Runtime} = client;
+
+ // Enable events on domains we are interested in.
+ Promise.all([
+ Page.enable()
+ ]).then(() => {
+ return Page.navigate({url: 'https://example.com'});
+ });
+
+ // Evaluate outerHTML after page has loaded.
+ Page.loadEventFired(() => {
+ Runtime.evaluate({expression: 'document.body.outerHTML'}).then((result) => {
+ console.log(result.result.value);
+ client.close();
+ });
+ });
+}).on('error', (err) => {
+ console.error('Cannot connect to browser:', err);
+});
+```
+
## Usage as a C++ library
Headless Chromium can be built as a library for embedding into a C++
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