Package: chromote 0.5.1.9000

Garrick Aden-Buie

chromote: Headless Chrome Web Browser Interface

An implementation of the 'Chrome DevTools Protocol', for controlling a headless Chrome web browser.

Authors:Garrick Aden-Buie [aut, cre], Winston Chang [aut], Barret Schloerke [aut], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd]

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manual.pdf |manual.html✨
DESCRIPTION |NEWS
card.svg |card.png
chromote/json (API)

# Install 'chromote' in R:
install.packages('chromote', repos = c('https://rstudio.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/rstudio/chromote/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://rstudio.github.io

On CRAN:

Conda:

13.63 score 179 stars 41 packages 439 scripts 57k downloads 32 exports 19 dependencies

Last updated from:13a789a2c2. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

TargetResultTimeFilesSyslog
linux-devel-x86_64OK155
source / vignettesOK202
linux-release-x86_64OK147
macos-release-arm64OK134
macos-oldrel-arm64OK106
windows-develOK117
windows-releaseOK145
windows-oldrelOK120
wasm-releaseOK175

Exports:%...!%%...>%%...T!%%...T>%%>%%T>%BrowsercatchChromechrome_versions_addchrome_versions_listchrome_versions_pathchrome_versions_path_cachechrome_versions_removeChromeRemoteChromotechromote_infoChromoteSessiondefault_chrome_argsdefault_chromote_objectfinallyfind_chromeget_chrome_argshas_default_chromote_objectlocal_chrome_versionlocal_chromote_chromepromiseset_chrome_argsset_default_chromote_objectthenwith_chrome_versionwith_chromote_chrome

Dependencies:AsioHeadersclicpp11curlfastmapjsonlitelaterlifecyclemagrittrotelprocessxpromisespsR6Rcpprlangwebsocketwithrzip

Choosing which Chrome-based browser to use
Use any version of Chrome or chrome-headless-shell with chromote | Using a Chrome-based browser that you installed
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Chrome on remote hosts
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Commands and events
Commands and Events | Automatic Events
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Extracting text from a web page
Using JavaScript | Synchronous version | Asynchronous version | Using Chrome DevTools Protocol commands
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Loading a page reliably
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Setting custom headers
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Setting custom user agent
Synchronous version | Asynchronous version
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Synchronous vs. asynchronous usage
Why use async? | Async commands | Turning asynchronous code into synchronous code | Async events
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Taking a screenshot of a web page
Setting width and height of the viewport (window) | Taking a screenshot of a web page after interacting with it | Taking screenshots of web pages in parallel
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Websites that require authentication
Method 1: Manually interact with the page | Method 2: Capture and re-use cookies
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Using chromote in CRAN tests
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chromote
Creating new tabs and managing the process | Commands and Events | The Chromote object model | Debugging | Resource cleanup and garbage collection
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Attaching to existing tabs
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Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
Browser base classBrowser
Local Chrome processChrome
Chrome versions cache helperschrome_versions chrome_versions_add chrome_versions_path chrome_versions_path_cache chrome_versions_remove
List installed or available Chrome binary versionschrome_versions_list
Remote Chrome processChromeRemote
Chromote classChromote
Show information about the chromote package and Chrome browserchromote_info
chromote Optionschromote-options
ChromoteSession classChromoteSession
Default Chrome argumentsdefault_chrome_args get_chrome_args set_chrome_args
Default Chromote objectdefault_chromote_object has_default_chromote_object set_default_chromote_object
Find path to Chrome or Chromium browserfind_chrome
Use a specific version of Chrome or related binarieslocal_chrome_version local_chromote_chrome with_chrome_version with_chromote_chrome