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August 2020

Headless browser automation guide - Writing theheadless.dev

After weeks of writing, researching and hopefully enough proofreading, we just launched a living collection of practical guides on leveraging headless browser tools (starting with Puppeteer and Playwright) for testing, monitoring, scraping, performance measuring and more. We called it theheadless.dev. This article is about the different approaches we tried in contributing ideas to the Puppeteer community, as well as the principles that guide our latest contribution.

Intro to Puppeteer and Checkly

A short introduction and overview to Puppeteer showing executions on both a local machine and Checkly, together with some considerations on how it fits in the current landscape of browser automation tool. Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Checkly is an active reliability platform bridging the gap between traditional monitoring and E2E testing, allowing you to automatically verify your API behaviour, as well as your key site transactions from one simple dashboard.

Improving the SSL certificate expiration alerts

We just updated our SSL certificate expiration alerting. This update gives you more control over where and when you want to receive these alerts. Before today, certificate alerts were set as part of "Alert Settings" tab, either globally or using specific settings for checks & check groups. This wasn't all that flexible and more granular control was already on our public roadmap.