CODEWITHSUNDEEP
node.jspuppeteer
avocado
avocado

Reputation: 2735

How to keep puppeteer browser running background without jumping to foreground?

When use puppeteer to scrape a bunch of sites via a for-loop, whenever a new page is created, the browser would jump to the foreground, which hinders me from doing other things on my computer.

Even I set the following args, it still doesn't work, so how could I keep the browser running quietly without jumping to foreground and interupting me?

I need to run in headful mode, not headless mode.

headless: false,
args: [
                '--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36',
                '--disable-background-timer-throttling',
                '--disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows',
                '--disable-renderer-backgrounding',
            ]

Upvotes: 11

Views: 11310

Answers (2)

PrivetMirMa
PrivetMirMa

Reputation: 1

You can use: headless: true.

I did this:

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    headless: true,
    executablePath: 'C:/Users/User/Desktop/Chrome-win/chrome.exe'
});

Upvotes: -2

mbit
mbit

Reputation: 3023

Open Chromium's Info.plist (you may find it here node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/mac-XXXXXX/chrome-mac/Chromium.app/Contents/Info.plist) in an editor and add the following piece after the first <dict> and before <key>:

<key>LSBackgroundOnly</key>
<string>True</string>

This works on any OS X application.

Source: Keep applications from stealing focus when opening in OS X

Upvotes: 22

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