Speed? Sure. But don’t sleep on the trade-offs.
No GUI means harder debugging, and some sites just *break* in headless mode.
If you’re scraping, maybe try a hybrid approach—headless for speed, but fall back to headed for tricky pages.
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Hey everyone, wow—didn’t expect so many great responses!
Definitely gonna try Playwright based on the recs here. Also, the tip about browser.pages() is gold—Puppeteer’s been eating my RAM.
Quick follow-up: Anyone got a favorite stealth plugin for Puppeteer? Ran into a site blocking me mid-scrape yesterday.
Thanks again! This thread’s been super helpful.
No GUI means harder debugging, and some sites just *break* in headless mode.
If you’re scraping, maybe try a hybrid approach—headless for speed, but fall back to headed for tricky pages.
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Hey everyone, wow—didn’t expect so many great responses!
Definitely gonna try Playwright based on the recs here. Also, the tip about browser.pages() is gold—Puppeteer’s been eating my RAM.
Quick follow-up: Anyone got a favorite stealth plugin for Puppeteer? Ran into a site blocking me mid-scrape yesterday.
Thanks again! This thread’s been super helpful.