Headless option in the CLI

[cullzie]

Not everyone wants to have the browser window open when running the script. It would also allow people who may not have a system to run using github actions or by using some free tiers on server providers.

We could add headless option to CLI to enable this: --headless.
Adding that functionality to the browsers would be required if we want to have a full CI of all the different browsers as well.

What do you think?

[fakeid30]

How would we go about achieving this ? Is there a firefox or chrome headless package?

Yes the idea is good but I'm not sure how practical that is. How hard do you think it'll be ?

[cullzie]

Its just a case of passing the headless args to the browser on creation. Similar to what is currently done for chrome. It might take a while to test all browsers (mainly edge, internet explorer 🤮) but I've done it with firefox, chrome and chromium before.

[fakeid30]

then sure , its good. Btw the CI is failing with debug , idk why .

[cullzie]

Its not the debug but the login check. I don't think the account has been logging in for the past while looking at older logs.

[aapatre]

I once found a headless browser but it wasn't as robust as selenium... Also, didn't have the features to automate clicking

[cullzie]

Was it phatomJs by any chance? All modern browsers should have headless option built in. Just with headless it is harder to debug and can have some 'quirks'

[cullzie]

Locking this as we are moving away from browser usage for enrollment.