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Chrome Headless

• Developer: Google
• Development Status: Active
• Released: 2017
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
• Type: Headless Browser
• Rendering Engine: Blink

Overview

Chrome Headless runs Google Chrome without a visible user interface for automation and testing.

Related Browsers

UAParser.js detects these related browser products and projects separately:

Browser	Description
Chrome	The standard desktop version of Chrome.
Chrome Mobile	Chrome's standalone browser for Android and iOS.
Chrome WebView	A browser component for showing web content inside Android apps.
Chrome Headless	Chrome without a graphical interface, commonly used for automation.
Chromium	The open-source browser project behind Chrome.
Android Browser	The stock browser included with early Android releases.

User-Agent Examples

macOS

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36

Linux

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome Safari/537.36

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Chrome Headless", version: "60.0.3112.113", major: "60"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.CHROME_HEADLESS));
// true