Explore whether to have a headless option for advanced tech stacks - added [done]

[kensoh]

eg building an implementation on Docker for Linux without displays / Xvbf

source - Allan

[kensoh]

This is added in v1.34, available with pip install rpa --upgrade

Note that many websites are not designed to work properly in headless mode.

• Headless mode can be activated with r.init(headless_mode = True)
• Use r.snap('page', 'browser.png') to take a snapshot for troubleshooting
• For debugging, I recommend using Jupyter Notebook or Python interactive mode

[skadefro]

Thank you.

[lanSeFangZhou]

can rpa deploy online like a service?

[kensoh]

The package definitely can be run on the cloud on Linux servers. See this working example of running on Google cloud via Google Colab, which users can create their workflows and run on their desktop or phone web browsers - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/13bQO6G_hzE1teX35a3NZ4T5K-ICFFdB5?usp=sharing

However, the package is primarily designed to run locally on a user computer. Thus if you run on the cloud, you will have to design and create your own API endpoints, as well as handle issues with queues or concurrency, since you may get multiple requests before an existing automation has completed running.