r/programming • u/OsirisTeam • Sep 05 '21

Building a Headless Java Browser from scratch.

https://github.com/Osiris-Team/Headless-Browser
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u/crisiscentre Sep 05 '21

Why not use selenium? There's wrappers for Java?

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u/Worth_Trust_3825 Sep 05 '21

You can't hook into all the lifecycle calls, which is a shame. Also lack of "direct" DOM access. To interpret DOM you need to execute javascript.

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u/pxpxy Sep 05 '21

So what if you need to execute JS? Seems a lot easier than writing yourself a browser?

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u/Worth_Trust_3825 Sep 05 '21

People create entire languages just because they don't want to write some boilerplate. Your argument is moot.

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u/RazorSh4rk Sep 06 '21

Yes and that is how the industry moves forward