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  • 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 / 4 days 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
  • Self-hosted browserless.io alternative ?
    Browserless.io hosts a REST API allowing to create remote puppeteer instances usable with puppeteer.connect(). Source: 12 months ago
  • Announcing GoWatch 1.0.0!
    Some more interesting features: - The Lua Filter allows you to program your own functionality if something is missing from the built-in Filters. - Raw Puppeteer session control through Browserless. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Web Scraping in Python: Avoid Detection Like a Ninja
    Selenium, Puppeteer, and Playwright are the most used and known libraries. Avoiding them for performance reasons would be preferable, and they'll make scraping slower. But sometimes, there is no alternative. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
  • Is it possible to install fb-messenger-cli on Termux?
    Clone (or download the zip file) of puppeteer. URL: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer. Source: about 1 year ago
  • How to scrape the web with Puppeteer in 2023
    Puppeteer is a browser automation library for JavaScript that uses the DevTools protocol to programmatically control Chromium or Chrome browsers. With more than 80K stars on GitHub, it is the de facto standard in headless browser automation. Puppeteer is written in TypeScript, which makes it easy to start with because of great code completion in IDEs. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
  • Puppeteer in Node.js: Common Mistakes to Avoid
    Puppeteer is a powerful Node.js browser automation library for integration testing and web scraping. However, like any complex software, it comes with plenty of potential pitfalls. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago
  • How to code a shopping bot?
    What languages do you know? https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer works pretty well for this kind of thing. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Screenshots as the Universal API
    I use this technique to build a personal dashboard. Rather than try to scrape data, then come up with a nice presentation for it, I just find a nice representation on the web for the data I want on the dashboard, then use Puppeteer[1] to automatically screenshot the specific DOM element that contains the thing I want. Works like a champ. [1]: - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
  • i am trying to scrape data from an anime website but I don't think it works , i am new to node , though I guess maybe because the website detects it as a bot , so is there any way to scrape data from an anime website known https://zoro.to
    That’s not how you scrape CSR Webpages, use something like puppeteer https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Headless Browser for Web Scraping: Usage Features
    Puppeteer by Google is a Node.js library providing an API for headless browser control via DevTools Protocol. Originally, it was an automated testing library, but it has been successfully used for web scraping. Supported browsers: Chrome / Chromium, limited – Firefox. Supported programming languages: Node.js; has an unofficial Python library, “Pyppeteer.”. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
  • Are there any credit cards with decent APIs? I'm looking for a card that has the ability to access my current balance and use the card lock feature via an API.
    Essentially you're on your own. What I did, is create a custom browser extension that grabs my transactions as soon as I sign in to the issuer's platform (I got it working properly for Discover and Chase). If you're willing to go a little further you could probably use puppeteer to automatically log and and do some actions for you. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Building a website directory with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Prisma
    I didn't set up Puppeteer to take screenshots of the sites but decided to use a screenshot as a service API. It gives a bunch of free screenshots to render websites, so that's enough to play with our project. Because taking screenshots of the site is not a core topic of the post, and using Puppeteer would be a pain in the ass. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
  • Is there a flavor of Linux/Application that handles VNC/remote access well?
    Sounds like something that should be automated through Puppeteer or Selenium. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Web Scraping(?) Project
    You can start web-scraping with Node.js and puppeteer - https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer. There is plenty of tools for every language and platform. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Is there an event that fires when a web page renders its main content? It’s not the 'load' event.
    When using a browser automation tool (i.e. Puppeteer) you have a page lifecycle event called networkidle0/networkidle2 which, according to the documentation on their code, "consider setting content to be finished when there are no more than 0 (or 2) network connections for at least 500 ms.". But keep in mind these events would only account for a "successful navigation" (as mentioned in this comment here). Don't... Source: over 1 year ago
  • Dynamic OG image with SvelteKit and Satori
    We all share links/url to our friends and we always see a beautiful image which is OpenGraph(OG) Image. OG images use to be static images and with time we got puppeteer which uses browser to take screenshot of your web page then you serve it from server. Recently, Vercel dropped a bomb @vercel/og with Satori which doesn't need a browser and you can generate Dynamic OG Images on the fly. As we know with every... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

External sources with reviews and comparisons of puppeteer

Best Data Scraping Tools
It is completely free. Puppeteer is well backed and supported by Google Chrome and hence replacing Selenium and PhantomJS. It automatically installs an efficient, compatible Chromium binary in its setup, therefore reducing the burden of keeping track on your browser.
Puppeteer vs Selenium
If you're looking for a better alternative, try Endtest. It has Puppeteer's speed, it supports Selenium's browsers AND it has all the features that they're missing.
Introduction to Headless Browser Testing
The Puppeteer API can be used to take screenshots, create PDFs, navigate pages, and fetch information from pages. We’ll write some example code to see Puppeteer in action.

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