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Browserless mentions (5)

• browserless Alternatives?

  Hello, I am building a scraper and I want to know if anyone knows an alternative to browserless.io? Source: 10 months ago

• (Free) Open-source PDF Generation/Export

  Otherwise, any pdf to hml chromium based solution hosted via docker, like gotenberg](https://github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg) or browserless.io(which is free if you create open source). Generating pdfs from html directly in .NET was always a pain. Wkhtml (and wrappers that use it) uses WebKit and comes with a load of issues of its own, similar to running and styling anything in Safari. Using chromium based engine... Source: 11 months ago

• Instagram Comment Scraping

  If you're looking for something free, you can self host browserless.io image yourself https://hub.docker.com/r/browserless/chrome, it's free up to 50k sessions per month. Then you'd have to use some library such as puppeteer to scrape... And instagram does rate limit so your best bet would be to use proxies to get around that. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Scraping-Bot closing, alternatives?

  Browserless.io lets you scrape all these sites, you can pay per second of usage or use a dedicated worker starting at $50/mo, you can scrape 10 sites concurrently so it's pretty affordable. Caveat is you don't get a dataset back, you'll have to inspect for selectors to get back what you need, but they are putting out a bunch of tutorials recently with copy paste examples such as... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Working as a DS, what tools do you use to scrape data?

  I love using browserless.io for things I can't scrape with a simple fetch. I use it especially single-page applications that need to be rendered before you can fetch data... They have APIs for most use cases, and when not, I can wrap puppeteer code inside their /funtion API and boom it's done. Source: almost 2 years ago

puppeteer mentions (102)

• Sometimes things simply don't work

  I am not in any way associated with the developers at puppeteer, but if you are looking for a way to contribute, they are open source. - Source: dev.to / 1 day ago

• JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks

  Puppeteer is a Node library that provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium. It's primarily used for browser automation, making it a powerful tool for end-to-end testing of web applications, taking screenshots, and generating pre-rendered content from web pages. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• What is Playwright?

  While similar to Puppeteer, Cypress, and Selenium, there are some differences. Let’s find out what they are. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Can a puppetry major survive a flagship’s financial crisis? Should it?

  The most widely used browser automation frameworks for scraping, end to end testing, and so on is literally called Puppeteer [1] :-) [1] https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Puppeteer in Node.js: More Antipatterns to Avoid

  Puppeteer is a powerful browser automation library for web scraping and integration testing. However, the asynchronous, real-time API leaves plenty of room for gotchas and antipatterns to arise. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago