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by Charlieee 4170 days ago
Some use cases for CEF:

* Embed a web browser control with great HTML5 support (based on Chromium)

* Use it to create a HTML5 based GUI in an application. This can act as a replacement for GUI toolkits like wxWidgets/Qt/Gtk. For native communication between javascript and python use javascript bindings, or run an internal web server and use XMLHttpRequest.

* Render web content off-screen in applications that use custom drawing frameworks. See the Kivy and Panda3D examples.

* Use it for automated testing of existing web applications. Use it for web scraping, or as a web crawler or other kind of internet bots.