title: using headless chrome as a general command line web utility- I wrote my own ( "Chromate ") but curious what exists
body: <p>I wrote a bibtex citation discovery tool ( &quot; TooBib &quot;, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350608962_toobib" rel="nofollow noreferrer">outdated doc draft</a>
  ) that required Chrome emulation for some sites. As wget does not support
  some SSL schemes, headless chrome seemed like a good choice but I did not
  want to get and learn a bunch of things like Selenium or nodejs etc( I think I
  had an issue installing Puppeteer ) . It turned out to be
  easy to invoke if from system() calls via c++ and talk directly to the debug
  port with websockets. As it can execute arbitrary javascript code, it is now
  quite flexible although maybe more cumbersome than things like wget.
  Does something like this already exist in simple form?
  Thanks.</p>