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<h1 align="center">Chrobot</h1>
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⛭ Typed browser automation for the BEAM ⛭
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## About
Chrobot provides a set of typed bindings to the stable version of the [Chrome Devtools Protocol](https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/), based on its published JSON specification.
The typed interface is achieved by generating Gleam code for type definitions as well as encoder / decoder functions from the parsed JSON specification file.
Chrobot also exposes some handy high level abstractions for browser automation, and handles managing a browser instance via an Erlang Port and communicating with it for you.
You could use it for
* Generating PDFs from HTML
* Web scraping
* Web archiving
* Browser integration tests
> 🦝 The generated protocol bindings are largely untested and I would consider this package experimental, use at your own peril!
## Setup
### Browser
Chrobot can use an existing system installation of Google Chrome or Chromium, if you already have one.
Chrobot also comes with a simple utility to install a version of [Google Chrome for Testing](https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/chrome-for-testing) directly inside your project.
Chrobot will automatically pick up this local installation when started via the `launch` command, and will prioritise it over a system installation of Google Chrome.
You can run the browser installer utility like so:
```sh
gleam run -m browser_install
```
Please [check the `install` docs for more information](https://hexdocs.pm/chrobot/browser_install.html) – this installation method will not work everywhere and comes with some caveats!
### Package
Install as a Gleam package
```sh
gleam add chrobot
```
Install as an Elixir dependency with mix
```elixir
# in your mix.exs
defp deps do
[
{:chrobot, "~> 2.0.0", app: false, manager: :rebar3}
]
end
```
## Examples
### Take a screenshot of a website
```gleam
import chrobot
pub fn main() {
// Open the browser and navigate to the gleam homepage
let assert Ok(browser) = chrobot.launch()
let assert Ok(page) =
browser
|> chrobot.open("https://gleam.run", 30_000)
let assert Ok(_) = chrobot.await_selector(page, "body")
// Take a screeshot and save it as 'hi_lucy.png'
let assert Ok(screenshot) = chrobot.screenshot(page)
let assert Ok(_) = chrobot.to_file(screenshot, "hi_lucy")
let assert Ok(_) = chrobot.quit(browser)
}
```
### Generate a PDF document with [lustre](http://lustre.build/)
```gleam
import chrobot
import lustre/element.{text}
import lustre/element/html
fn build_page() {
html.body([], [
html.h1([], [text("Spanakorizo")]),
html.h2([], [text("Ingredients")]),
html.ul([], [
html.li([], [text("1 onion")]),
html.li([], [text("1 clove(s) of garlic")]),
html.li([], [text("70 g olive oil")]),
html.li([], [text("salt")]),
html.li([], [text("pepper")]),
html.li([], [text("2 spring onions")]),
html.li([], [text("1/2 bunch dill")]),
html.li([], [text("250 g round grain rice")]),
html.li([], [text("150 g white wine")]),
html.li([], [text("1 liter vegetable stock")]),
html.li([], [text("1 kilo spinach")]),
html.li([], [text("lemon zest, of 2 lemons")]),
html.li([], [text("lemon juice, of 2 lemons")]),
]),
html.h2([], [text("To serve")]),
html.ul([], [
html.li([], [text("1 lemon")]),
html.li([], [text("feta cheese")]),
html.li([], [text("olive oil")]),
html.li([], [text("pepper")]),
html.li([], [text("oregano")]),
]),
])
|> element.to_document_string()
}
pub fn main() {
let assert Ok(browser) = chrobot.launch()
let assert Ok(page) =
browser
|> chrobot.create_page(build_page(), 10_000)
// Store as 'recipe.png'
let assert Ok(doc) = chrobot.pdf(page)
let assert Ok(_) = chrobot.to_file(doc, "recipe")
let assert Ok(_) = chrobot.quit(browser)
}
```
### Scrape a Website
> 🍄🟫 **Just a quick reminder:**
> Please be mindful of the load you are putting on other people's web services when you are scraping them programmatically!
```gleam
import chrobot
import gleam/io
import gleam/list
import gleam/result
pub fn main() {
let assert Ok(browser) = chrobot.launch()
let assert Ok(page) =
browser
|> chrobot.open("https://books.toscrape.com/", 30_000)
let assert Ok(_) = chrobot.await_selector(page, "body")
let assert Ok(page_items) = chrobot.select_all(page, ".product_pod h3 a")
let assert Ok(title_results) =
list.map(page_items, fn(i) { chrobot.get_attribute(page, i, "title") })
|> result.all()
io.debug(title_results)
let assert Ok(_) = chrobot.quit(browser)
}
```
### Using from Elixir
```elixir
# ( output / logging removed for brevity )
iex(1)> {:ok, browser} = :chrobot.launch()
iex(2)> {:ok, page} = :chrobot.open(browser, "https://example.com", 10_000)
iex(3)> {:ok, object} = :chrobot.select(page, "h1")
iex(4)> {:ok,text} = :chrobot.get_text(page, object)
iex(5)> text
"Example Domain"
```
## Documentation & Guide
The full documentation can be found at <https://hexdocs.pm/chrobot>.
🗼 To learn about the high level abstractions, look at the [`chrobot` module documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/chrobot/chrobot.html).
📠 To learn how to use the protocol bindings directly, look at the [`protocol` module documentation](https://hexdocs.pm/chrobot/protocol.html).
