I've never really worked too heavily with headless, so what would be some examples of 'real-life' applications using this API? Looking for some inspiration to maybe build a side project around this :)
Thanks for the mention (browserless.io)! Really enjoying this site, let me know if you'd like a guest post and I'd happily add something. We've gathered a few weird tricks and tips as well. Definitely a lot that can be shared!
I don't like to have my home WiFi on all the time but I want to be able to activate / desactivate it from my phone anytime so I send a SMS to my RaspberryPi (running raspisms) that launches an app that connects to my ISP router box and activate the WiFi like I would do manually.
My app is powered by Selenium but the concept is the same.
I'm actually using it in building an in-house health-check platform for our sites.
Its purpose in our case is front-end performance measurement. In short, have a script running checks in a Cron Job, published to static reports we can reference over a timeline.
Nothing overly sophisticated, but it suits our current budget ($0).
- https://checklyhq.com - synthetic monitoring
- https://microlink.io - automation
- https://www.browserless.io - testing
- https://www.scrapingbee.com/ - scraping
All are business leveraging these types of frameworks