<story><title>Headless Chrome is coming soon</title><url>https://twitter.com/samccone/status/739166801427210240</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakozaur</author><text>That would be so awesome. The current alternatives:&lt;p&gt;1. Use PhantomJS: It easy to script, but it lags over real browser by few years and development is stagnant. Many real website doesn&amp;#x27;t work in PhantomJS.&lt;p&gt;2. Use Chrome&amp;#x2F;Firefox xvfb. You have real browser, but scripting is hard. E.g. even hello world examples like make a thumbnail of a website takes a lot of time to get right.&lt;p&gt;According to some rumors, headless Chrome existed before even Chrome was released to the public. Google use it to do web scraping. However, though headless browsers are great for developers, they are also great for spammers and ad fraud. So the main developer likely has conflict of interests whether to invest resources into making headless Chrome public.</text></comment>
<story><title>Headless Chrome is coming soon</title><url>https://twitter.com/samccone/status/739166801427210240</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frik</author><text>From the bug comments:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  headless: Implement screenshot capturing
  
  (based on patch from skyostil@, also sets default window 
  size to 800x600 to enable basic snapshot support)
  
  With the --screenshot option, headless shell will save a 
  PNG screenshot of the loaded page.&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>