Headless browser

[Saphyel]

I was wondering why not using the headless mode?

Chrome and Firefox support this option (I guess Edge too because is based on Chrome) In this way you won't need any dependencies at all

[jack-mil]

I was aware of some headless browser automation using the Selenium web Driver backend. There were a couple other projects automating bing rewards using this method. I found the setup complex and lots of dependencies for Selenium, so I created this as a simple alternative.
Is there a way to use this headless mode without the Selenium driver interacting with the API? I am interested to know more if you have experience with this.

[Saphyel]

what about using https://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html ??

[jack-mil]

I am using that module at one point to launch pages in the users default browser. But I don't believe that module supports the flags we need to launch the browser with a custom user agent. Currently, the browser processes are launched with subprocess.Popen()

bing-rewards/bing_rewards/__init__.py

Lines 376 to 378 in 888f5ee

	# Open rewards dashboard
	if args.open_rewards and not args.dryrun:
	webbrowser.open_new("https://account.microsoft.com/rewards")

bing-rewards/bing_rewards/__init__.py

Lines 246 to 251 in 888f5ee

	chrome = subprocess.Popen(
	browser_cmd(args.exe or config.get("browser-path") or None, agent),
	stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
	stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
	preexec_fn=os.setsid,
	)