disable additional Chrome UI / bubbles

built/brave/puppeteer.js

@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ const disabledBraveFeatures = [
     'TextClassification',
     'SiteVisit',
 ];
+const disabledChromeFeatures = [
+    'IPH_SidePanelGenericMenuFeature',
+];
+const disabledFeatures = disabledBraveFeatures.concat(disabledChromeFeatures);
 const profilePathForArgs = (args) => {
     const logger = getLogger(args);
     // The easiest case is if we've been told to use an existing profile.
@@ -51,12 +55,14 @@ export const puppeteerConfigForArgs = (args) => {
     const { profilePath, shouldClean } = profilePathForArgs(args);
     process.env.PAGEGRAPH_OUT_DIR = args.outputPath;
     const chromeArgs = [
+        '--ash-no-nudges',
         '--deny-permission-prompts',
         '--disable-brave-update',
         '--disable-breakpad',
         '--disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages',
         '--disable-component-update',
-        '--disable-features=' + disabledBraveFeatures.join(','),
+        '--disable-features=' + disabledFeatures.join(','),
+        '--disable-first-run-ui',
         '--disable-infobars',
         '--disable-ipc-flooding-protection',
         '--disable-notifications',

changelog.md

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Version 1.1.0
+---
+
+Also pass `--disable-first-run-ui`, to suppress some additional, unneeded and
+unwanted browser UI, and disable the Chrome `IPH_SidePanelGenericMenuFeature`
+for the same reason.
+
 Version 1.0.2
 ---
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "pagegraph-crawl",
-  "version": "1.0.4",
+  "version": "1.1.0",
   "description": "CLI for crawling with PageGraph.",
   "scripts": {
     "lint": "npx eslint src/**/*.ts src/*.ts",

src/brave/puppeteer.ts

@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ const disabledBraveFeatures = [
   'SiteVisit',
 ]
 
+const disabledChromeFeatures = [
+  'IPH_SidePanelGenericMenuFeature',
+]
+
+const disabledFeatures = disabledBraveFeatures.concat(disabledChromeFeatures)
+
 interface ProfilePath {
   profilePath: FilePath
   shouldClean: boolean
@@ -74,12 +80,14 @@ export const puppeteerConfigForArgs = (args: CrawlArgs): PuppeteerConfig => {
   process.env.PAGEGRAPH_OUT_DIR = args.outputPath
 
   const chromeArgs = [
+    '--ash-no-nudges',
     '--deny-permission-prompts',
     '--disable-brave-update',
     '--disable-breakpad',
     '--disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages',
     '--disable-component-update',
-    '--disable-features=' + disabledBraveFeatures.join(','),
+    '--disable-features=' + disabledFeatures.join(','),
+    '--disable-first-run-ui',
     '--disable-infobars',
     '--disable-ipc-flooding-protection',
     '--disable-notifications',

src/run.ts

@@ -19,17 +19,17 @@ parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', {
 })
 parser.add_argument('-b', '--binary', {
   help: 'Path to the PageGraph enabled build of Brave. If not provided, '
-  + 'try to guess where the binary is, or if its in $PATH',
+    + 'try to guess where the binary is, or if its in $PATH',
 })
 parser.add_argument('-r', '--recursive-depth', {
   default: 1,
   help: 'If provided, choose a link at random on page and do another crawl '
-  + 'to this depth. Default: 1 (no recursion).',
+    + 'to this depth. Default: 1 (no recursion).',
 })
 parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', {
   help: 'Path to write to. If a directory is provided, then results are '
-  + 'written to a file in that directory. If a full path is given, '
-  + 'then results are written to that path.',
+    + 'written to a file in that directory. If a full path is given, '
+    + 'then results are written to that path.',
   required: true,
 })
 parser.add_argument('-u', '--url', {
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ parser.add_argument('-u', '--url', {
 })
 parser.add_argument('-e', '--existing-profile', {
   help: 'The chromium profile to use when crawling. Cannot '
-  + 'be used with "--persist-profile"',
+    + 'be used with "--persist-profile"',
 })
 parser.add_argument('-p', '--persist-profile', {
   help: 'If provided, the user profile will be saved at this path. Cannot '
-  + 'be used with "--existing-profile"',
+    + 'be used with "--existing-profile"',
   default: false,
   action: 'store_true',
 })
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--extensions-path', {
 })
 parser.add_argument('-s', '--shields', {
   help: 'Whether to measure with shields up or down. Ignored when using '
-  + `"--existing-profile".  Default: ${defaultShieldsSetting}`,
+    + `"--existing-profile".  Default: ${defaultShieldsSetting}`,
   choices: ['up', 'down'],
   default: defaultShieldsSetting,
 })
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ parser.add_argument('--logging', {
 })
 parser.add_argument('-i', '--interactive', {
   help: 'Suppress use of Xvfb to allow interaction with spawned '
-  + 'browser instance',
+    + 'browser instance',
   action: 'store_true',
   default: false,
 })
@@ -82,12 +82,12 @@ parser.add_argument('--proxy-server', {
 })
 parser.add_argument('-x', '--extra-args', {
   help: 'Pass JSON_ARRAY as extra CLI argument to the browser '
-  + 'instance launched.',
+    + 'instance launched.',
   metavar: 'JSON_ARRAY',
 })
 parser.add_argument('-c', '--crawl-duplicates', {
   help: 'Enable crawls for redirected URLs that are already present in '
-  + 'the redirection chain.',
+    + 'the redirection chain.',
   action: 'store_true',
   default: false,
 })