What is Puppeteer?
Puppeteer is a Node.js library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs in headless mode by default, but can be configured to run in full ("headful") Chrome/Chromium.
Puppeteer is published with two packages:
Puppeteer is published with two packages:
puppeteer is a product for browser automation. When installed, it downloads a version of Chrome, which it then drives using puppeteer-core. Being an end-user product, puppeteer automates several workflows using reasonable defaults that can be customized.
puppeteer-core is a library to help drive anything that supports DevTools protocol. Being a library, puppeteer-core is fully driven through its programmatic interface implying no defaults are assumed and puppeteer-core will not download Chrome when installed.
Things that can be done in Puppeteer include:
Things that can be done in Puppeteer include:
- Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages
- Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. "SSR" (Server-Side Rendering))
- Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc
- Create an automated testing environment using the latest JavaScript and browser features
- Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues
- Test Chrome Extensions
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What is Puppeteer?
Puppeteer is a Node.js library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs in headless mode by default, but can be configured to run in full ("headful") Chrome/Chromium.
How much does Puppeteer cost?
Puppeteer starts at $0.