pyppeteer VS requests

Compare pyppeteer vs requests and see what are their differences.

pyppeteer

Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer) (by pyppeteer)
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pyppeteer requests
17 87
3,393 51,322
2.3% 0.4%
5.6 8.4
13 days ago 4 days ago
Python Python
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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pyppeteer

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyppeteer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.

requests

Posts with mentions or reviews of requests. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pyppeteer and requests you can also consider the following projects:

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome

urllib3 - urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python

Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.

httplib2 - Small, fast HTTP client library for Python. Features persistent connections, cache, and Google App Engine support. Originally written by Joe Gregorio, now supported by community.

Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

grequests - Requests + Gevent = <3

selenium-python-helium - Lighter web automation for Python [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium]

AIOHTTP - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.

treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.

selectolax - Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors).

Uplink - A Declarative HTTP Client for Python