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Comment by WalterGR | Hacker News Reader

    Selenium allows you to automate a real browser and capture the
    responses, hell if need be you can create a fake profile with Chrome
    and make it completely indistinguishable.

Are there no headless browsers that let you accomplish the same thing? Honest question...

I've used Selenium, but I just assumed that headless browsers were exactly: real browsers minus the UI.

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Quite possibly but I use selenium extensively during dev to automate boring tasks (filling in forms over and over is boring) as well as for integration and functional testing.

So I had a hammer and the problem looked like a nail. ;)

headless browsers are easy to identify.

The best you have to not be ID'd and "kinda headless" is slimer or selenium to XVFB, which aren't really headless but sort of

[edit] slimer [AND] selenium to [OR]

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