go-rod/rod
A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 844 days ago, with 57 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 43% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a high-level Go driver for Chrome DevTools Protocol enabling web automation and scraping.
- Offers thread-safe operations with auto-waiting, debugging support, and seamless browser management for reliable automation.
- Use for automating browser tasks and scraping dynamic web content in Go applications.
- Use for building custom web testing frameworks that require precise control over browser events and elements.
- Use for integrating headless Chrome browsing in CI pipelines with guaranteed cleanup of browser processes after crashes.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Rod is a high-level driver directly based on DevTools Protocol. It's designed for web automation and scraping for both high-level and low-level use, senior developers can use the low-level packages and functions to easily customize or build up their own version of Rod, the high-level functions are just examples to build a default version of Rod.
Please check the examples_test.go file first, then check the examples folder.
For more detailed examples, please search the unit tests. Such as the usage of method
HandleAuth, you can search all the*_test.gofiles that containHandleAuth, for example, use GitHub online search in repository. You can also search the GitHub issues or discussions, a lot of usage examples are recorded there.Here is a comparison of the examples between rod and Chromedp.
If you have questions, please raise an issues/discussions or join the chat room.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
489+10
Open issues
217+7
Compared with peers in Automation
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| D4Vinci/Scrapling | 98.1K | +6.9K | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 109.3K | +3.0K | 60 | 4 days ago |
| lexmount/moli | 22.7K | +1.2K | 55 | 2 days ago |
| superplanehq/superplane | 8.8K | +435 | 60 | 7 days ago |
| go-rod/rod | 7.1K | — | 45 | 844 days ago |
| Category median | 22.7K | +3.0K | 60 | — |
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