My introduction to headless browsing came last week when I set up a system to publish issues of OLDaily as issues of a LinkedIn newsletter. Using a Python library called Selenium, I input a series of commands to Chrome to sign in and enter the contents into a form - all this was necessary because LinkedIn does not provide an API for this, and yet there was a desire from people on LinkedIn to follow OLDaily (and more than 500 people subscribed in the first few days). It's worth noting that I knew nothing about how to do this until ChatGPT taught me. This article describes how new AI-powered browsers like Perplexity's Comet (which I am testing), Blackbird's Compass (ditto), and Browser Company of New York's Dia are using headless browsing to consult various websites to provide services. But it's not all smooth sailing. "Publishers have already moved to take a stronger stance against AI bot traffic and content scraping. AI headless browsers could be the next evolution of that battle."
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