Restart the persistent browser session

Closes the current session (if any) and starts a fresh one with warm-up. Useful when Chrome has become unresponsive or after errors mid-batch.

Usage

browser_session_restart(warm_up = TRUE, warm_up_wait = 8)

Arguments

warm_up

Logical. If TRUE (default), navigates to the Facebook Ad Library landing page on startup to pass the JS challenge and set cookies.

warm_up_wait

Seconds to wait during warm-up (default 8).

Value

Invisibly returns TRUE on success.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
browser_session_start()
# ... Chrome becomes unresponsive ...
browser_session_restart()
# ... continue working ...
browser_session_close()
} # }