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m9m9m
m9m9m

Reputation: 1721

how to stop opening chromium browser while running the puppeteer scraping script?

I am using Puppeteer scrape a website. Everything is perfect except the script opens chromium browser everytime it runs. Can I stop that? Can I make it run in the background? It is not letting me to do anything because the opening chromim is having the control over all the open applications.

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
async function main() {
  const productURL = `https://www.example.com`;
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false });
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.setViewport({ width: 1020, height: 768 });
  const pageResponse = await page.goto(productURL, { waitUntil: 'networkidle0', timeout: 0 });
// scraping code based on selectors goes here....
  await browser.close();
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1730

Answers (1)

Carlo Field
Carlo Field

Reputation: 724

You will need to enable headless mode:

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({headless: true});

Headless mode is a browser mode for Chromium that doesn't open a window.

Upvotes: 1

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