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What are Headless Components?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

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How to Use a Headless Browser for Web Scraping

Wes Anderson: I was having some issues lately where Chrome has gone over 50 megs in size and 50 megs is the limit to a serverless function. So you either have to compile your own version of Chrome that doesn't include some stuff that you want like like WebGL, he says. "I'm literally just rendering out a web page, taking a screenshot and then serving that up as a PNG or something like that" It's pretty fun area to get into people also use headless browsers for web scraping.

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