Headless browsers were not designed specifically for web scraping. All of them are browser automation tools designed for website testing, etc. In most cases, bot-protection software (such as Akami & DataDom) detects these browsers, making it difficult to scrape on a large scale. It is only because Python and Node.js are open-source tools and easily accessible that programmers use them for scraping.
Learn how the first dedicated scraping browser attempts to simplify this task for dev teams here:
https://medium.com/p/18892624bbc9
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