ichrome

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Chrome controller for Humans, based on Chrome Devtools Protocol(CDP) and python3.8+. Read Docs

🚀 [NEW] ichrome v6.0.0 is available! Now supporting ichrome.http - a RESTful API server to control Chrome via HTTP requests.

uvx --from ichrome ichrome.http
or
python -m ichrome.http
then view the interactive API docs at http://localhost:8080/docs

If you encounter any problems, please let me know through issues; your feedback is valuable for enhancing ichrome.

Install

pip install ichrome -U

Uninstall & Clear the user data folder

    $ python3 -m ichrome --clean
    $ pip uninstall ichrome

Quick Start

import asyncio
from ichrome import AsyncChromeDaemon


async def test():
    async with AsyncChromeDaemon() as cd:
        # create a new tab
        async with cd.connect_tab(index=None) as tab:
            await tab.goto('https://github.com/ClericPy/ichrome', timeout=5)
            print(await tab.title)
        # Privacy Mode, proxyServer arg maybe not work on Chrome, for `Target.createBrowserContext` is the EXPERIMENTAL feature(but chromium is ok).
        # https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/tot/Target/#method-createBrowserContext
        async with cd.incognito_tab(proxyServer='http://127.0.0.1:8080') as tab:
            await tab.goto('https://httpbin.org/ip', timeout=5)
            print(await tab.html)


asyncio.run(test())

Why?

• In desperate need of a stable toolkit to communicate with Chrome browser (or other Blink-based browsers such as Chromium)
  • ichrome includes fast http & websocket connections (based on aiohttp) within an asyncio environment
• Pyppeteer is awesome
  • But I don't need so much, and the spelling of 'pyppeteer' is confusing
  • Event-driven architecture (EDA) is not always ideal.
• Selenium is slow
  • Webdriver often comes with memory leaks
    • PhantomJS development is suspended
  • No native coroutine (asyncio) support
• Playwright arrived too late
  • This may be a good choice for both sync and async usage
    • The original author of puppeteer joined the team.
  • But its core code is based on Node.js, which is hard to monkey-patch.

Features

As we know, Javascript is the first-class citizen of the Browser world, so learn to use it frequently with ichrome.

• A process daemon for Chrome instances

  • auto-restart
  • command-line usage
  • async environment compatible

• Connect to an existing Chrome

• Operations on Tabs under stable websocket

  • Commonly used functions
  • Incognito Mode

• ChromeEngine as the process pool

  • support HTTP api router with aiohttp
    • python -m ichrome.http or uvx ichrome.http
    • python -m ichrome.http --help for usage
  • python -m ichrome.web (Removed since v6.0.0)

• Flatten mode with sessionId

  • Create only 1 WebSocket connection
  • New in version 2.9.0
    • EXPERIMENTAL
    • Share the same Websocket connection and use sessionId to distinguish requests
  • After v3.0.1
    • AsyncTab._DEFAULT_FLATTEN = True

• The install script of chromium

• debug mode for sync usage with ichrome.debugger >4.0.0 (EXPERIMENTAL)

Breaking Changes

1. v6.0.0
   1. ichrome.web module is removed, use ichrome.http instead.
   2. refactor the ChromeEngine method parameters.
      1. add wait condition before engine.do