Headless mode

Headless mode allows running Chromium in a headless/server environment. Expected use cases include loading web pages, extracting metadata (e.g., the DOM) and generating bitmaps from page contents -- using all the modern web platform features provided by Chromium and Blink. To use headless, start Chrome with a command line flag: $ chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222 https://chromium.org

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Available for Linux, Mac and Windows.

Demo

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6biclFh0i0&feature=youtu.be

Documentation

• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Internals>Headless

Behind a flag (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 59
• Opera release 46
• Opera for Android release 46

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: In development
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• skyostil@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-16