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use chrome to crawl

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Last edited May 5, 2017

Created on May 5, 2017

This example demonstrates automated web crawling and interaction using Chrome's remote interface. The code navigates through URLs from a seed list, captures page HTML and window environment variables, and programmatically clicks all elements with click event listeners. It manages JavaScript dialogs and navigation timeouts, while logging errors. It relies on Chrome's Remote Interface (CDP), along with Bluebird for promise handling, and custom detectors for JS library identification.

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