Web Scraping with Javascript: from Axios to Puppeteer and Playwright

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  • puppeteer-extra

    💯 Teach puppeteer new tricks through plugins.

  • I generally prefer Puppeteer/Playwright as an ability to use a real browser (a pretty popular one) without messing around with propper settings to avoid detection (puppeteer have a beautiful customisable library to avoid detection https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth) But for some cases, JSDom is a perfect replacement as not requires to run Chromium/headless Chromium for just a JS execution. It's all depends on a scale. I haven't benchmarked these two options in the perspective of saving resources, but thanks for the idea to do it.

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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