han2015/headless-chrome

how to install headless chrome

For MAC OX

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• offical site: https://www.google.com/chrome/canary/

how to install

• download and install directly: https://dl.google.com/release2/q/canary/googlechrome.dmg

alias chrome="/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome"

• alias canary="/Applications/Google\ Chrome\ Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome\ Canary"

chrome parameters:

• background mode --headless
• block image --blink-settings=imagesEnabled=false
• print dom --dump-dom

canary --headless --disable-gpu --blink-settings=imagesEnabled=false --print-to-pdf https://www.baidu.com/

For Linux Server

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how to install headless google-chrome

$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*

• eg. i download a named 60.0.3112.90_amd64.deb of google-chrome

$ sudo dpkg -i 60.0.3112.90_amd64.deb

how to find where is the chome app

$ which google-chrome-stable 

• then i got /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable, for convenience you can make a alias

$ alias chrome=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable

• then

chome --headless --disable-gpu --blink-settings=imagesEnabled=false --print-to-pdf https://google.com

refer doc

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome