Headless browsers and cloud scraping, explained
What a headless browser is, why plain HTTP is not enough, and how to scale the whole thing.
A headless browser is a real browser without a visible window. It runs the same engine, executes the same code, and sees the same page a person would — which is exactly why it can scrape sites a plain request cannot.
Why not just fetch the HTML
Modern pages render themselves in the browser. Fetch the raw HTML and you often get an empty shell. A headless browser runs the code that fills that shell in.
from ferr import Ferr page = Ferr().sessions.create(stealth=True).new_page()page.goto('https://catalog.example.com')items = page.extract('product list')Scaling in the cloud
One browser is easy; a thousand is infrastructure. Running them in the cloud with managed stealth and routing is the part Ferr exists to handle.
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