ChromoteSession gets a new helper method,
$go_to(). This is an easier way of reliably waiting for a
page load, instead of using Page$loadEventFired() and
Page$navigate() together. (#221)
ChromoteSession$view() now accommodates the new
DevTools Frontend URL used by Chrome v135 and later (#225,
#226).
chrome-headless-shell for Mac (x64
or arm64), Windows (32- or 64-bit) or Linux (x86-64) from the Chrome for
Testing service. (#198)
with_chrome_version() or
local_chrome_version() to temporarily switch to a specific
version of Chrome. The appropriate binary will be downloaded
automatically if not yet available locally.chrome_versions_list() to list installed or
available versions of Chrome.chrome_versions_add() and
chrome_versions_remove() to manually add or remove a
specific version of Chrome from chromote’s cache.ChromoteSession gains two new helper methods:
$set_viewport_size() and $get_viewport_size().
These methods allow you to change the viewport size – effectively the
virtual window size for a page – or to get the current viewport size. If
you previously relied on $Emulation$setVisibleSize() (now a
deprecated method in the Chrome DevTools Protocol),
$set_viewport_size() is a good replacement as it uses Emulation.setDeviceMetricsOverride
instead. (#206)ChromoteSession$new() gains a mobile
argument that can be used to set the device emulation in that session to
emulate a mobile browser. The default is mobile = FALSE,
which matches previous behavior. (#205)
Chromote and ChromoteSesssion gain an
$auto_events_enable_args() method that sets that arguments
used by chromote’s auto-events feature when calling the
enable command for a domain,
e.g. Fetch.enable. (#208)
The $view() method of a ChromoteSession
will now detect when chrome-headless-shell is being used
and will use the system browser (via utils::browseURL())
rather than the Chrome instance attached to chromote. (#214)
chromote now has a hex sticker! Thank you to @davidrsch for the inspiration. (#216)
ChromoteSession$new() now sets width
and height using Emulation.setDeviceMetricsOverride,
which works for all Chrome binaries and versions. This fixes an issue
with width and height being ignored for Chrome
versions 128-133. (#205)
Fixed a bug in chromote_info() on Windows with
Powershell when no version info is returned. (#207)
Chromote and ChromoteSession once again
correctly handles connections to remote Chrome browsers via
ChromeRemote. Calling $close() on a
Chromote object connected to a remote browser no longer
attempts to close the browser, and will now simply close the websocket
connection to the browser. For local process, the
Chromote$close() gains a wait argument that
sets the number of seconds to wait for Chrome to gracefully shut down
before chromote closes the process. (#212)
Chrome v132 and later no longer support old
headless mode. As such, chromote no longer defaults to
using --headless=old and now uses --headless
when running Chrome. You can still use the
chromote.headless option or CHROMOTE_HEADLESS
environment variable to configure the --headless flag if
you’re using an older version of Chrome. (#187)
Added chromote_info(), a new utility function to
print out key information about chromote and Chrome. Useful when
debugging chromote or reporting an issue. (#190)
chromote now uses a consistent prefix for logs, e.g
{tempdir}/chrome-{id}-stdout.log and
{tempdir}/chrome-{id}-stderr.log. chromote also now uses
--crash-dumps-dir to set a session-specific temp directory.
(#194)
launch_chrome() to throw an
error. (#175)The headless mode used by Chrome can now be selected with the
chromote.headless option or CHROMOTE_HEADLESS
environment variable.
In Chrome v128, a new headless mode became the default. The new mode uses the same browser engine as the regular Chrome browser, whereas the old headless mode is built on a separate architecture. The old headless mode may be faster to launch and is still well-suited to many of the tasks for which chromote is used.
For now, to avoid disruption, chromote defaults to using the old
headless mode. In the future, chromote will follow Chrome and default to
"new" headless mode. (And at some point, Chrome intends to
remove the old headless mode which is now offered as a
separate binary.) To test the new headless mode, use
options(chromote.headless = "new") or
CHROMOTE_HEADLESS="new" (in .Renviron or via
Sys.setenv()). (#172)
Chromote$is_active() method now
reports if there is an active connection to the underlying chrome
instance, rather than whether or not that instance is alive (#94).Chromote and ChromoteSession gain print
methods to give you a snapshot of the most important values
(#140).
Chromote gains a new is_alive() method
equivalent to the old is_active() method; i.e. it reports
on if there is an active chrome process running in the background
(#136).
ChromoteSession now records the
targetId. This eliminates one round-trip to the browser
when viewing or closing a session. You can now call the
$respawn() method if a session terminates and you want to
reconnect to the same target (#94).
ChromoteSession$screenshot() gains an
options argument that accepts a list of additional options
to be passed to the Chrome Devtools Protocol’s Page.captureScreenshot
method (#129).
ChromoteSession$screenshot() will now infer the
image format from the filename extension. Alternatively,
you can specify the format in the list passed to
options (#130).
--disable-gpu is no longer included in the default
Chrome arguments, except on windows where empirically it appears to be
necessary (otherwise GHA check runs never terminate) (#142).
Fixed #109: An error would occur when a Chromote
object’s $close() method was called. (#110)
Fixed #99: When the $view() method was called,
recent versions of Chrome would display
"Debugging connection was closed. Reason: WebSocket disconnected".
(#101)
Fixed #89, #91: find_chrome() now checks more
possible binary names for Chrome or Chromium on Linux and Mac. (thanks
@brianmsm and @rossellhayes,
#117)
Fixed #22: Added a new chromote.timeout global
option that can be used to set the timeout (in seconds) for establishing
connections with the Chrome session. (#120)