Puppeteer Alternatives

Reviews and mentions

• Running Puppeteer under Docker
  2 projects | dev.to | 14 Jan 2022

  If you haven’t heard of Puppeteer, it’s basically a NodeJS library that allows you to run (and control) an instance of headless chrome. i.e - an instance of Google chrome without a UI. In this project, I was using it to render PDF exports of reports. Running natively, it worked like a charm. But under docker, well…I’m writing this article after all, aren’t I?

• Programmatically Rendering PDFs from HTML using Chrome and Puppeteer
  3 projects | dev.to | 14 Jan 2022

  The latest solution I've found is Puppeteer. It's a Node.Js package that manipulates a headless (i.e. no browser window) version of Chrome. Chrome updates frequently, supports good standards, and renders well. The PDF output from Puppeteer matches pretty exactly with the output you would get using Chrome to print to a PDF manually.

• Catching Native Apps
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2022
• Recommended headless browser for node projects in 2022?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/learnprogramming | 8 Jan 2022

  I think puppeteer is pretty much the gold standard these days. I wouldn't call it lightweight though... at the end of the day it's still a browser.

• Looking to combine html files into single pdf
  1 project | reddit.com/r/softwaredevelopment | 7 Jan 2022

  I'm not 100% clear what you try to do, but converting web pages into PDFs I did in the past via https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer. You do need a short JavaScript program to read the list of URLs, get it and output to PDF via Puppeteer.

• Should you use Let's Encrypt for internal hostnames?
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2022

  For any device that has a web interface, and no way of updating the cert automatically built in or via an API, you'd probably have to automate the process with something like puppeteer.

  https://www.npmjs.com/package/puppeteer

• How take a screenshot with Puppeteer
  5 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2022

  Making screenshots of the websites with Puppeteer can be tricky. A lot of pitfalls wait for us. Let's examine Puppeteer on a set of "screenshotting" problems and tackle arising pitfalls.

• How to create a chrome profile programmatically in aws lambda?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/awslambda | 2 Jan 2022

  I was able to successfully to run chrome with puppeteer in AWS Lambda for a similar use case. I used an "optimized" version of chrome packaged as an AWS Lambda Layer.

• Paid Bounty: $500 - Issue: On Mac OS, Electron Webviews Steal App Focus from other Apps when reloading.
  1 project | reddit.com/r/electronjs | 1 Jan 2022

  Chrome Remote Interface, or the much for palatable puppeteer

• How to create a webscraping website?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/webdev | 31 Dec 2021

  You can use https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/api.md As a headless browser and scrape any data from pages you hit.

• [AskJS] Some advice on web scraping with Javascript.
  1 project | reddit.com/r/javascript | 24 Dec 2021

  You might wanna try Puppetter : https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer You can use it to simulate 'clicks' on different parts of the DOM and update the data you have access to, which can be useful for SPA for which a single resquest to a URL is not enough.

• Pi 4b's get slower the longer they run until they eventually crash.
  1 project | reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi | 24 Dec 2021

  It could be worth looking into Puppeteer to automate the browser interactions and fetch the data you need. I use this on mine and it's very flexible.

• How can I automate scraping the data from website into excel in work?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/AskProgramming | 22 Dec 2021

  What you're looking for isn't a webscraper, but a browser emulator. Puppeteer is exactly what you're looking for. It's reliable and maintained by Google. If you need to get past bot detectors, use puppeteer-stealth

• How do I make an auto-clicking program that also scrolls and selects from a drop-down box?
  1 project | reddit.com/r/programminghelp | 19 Dec 2021

  I would use puppeteer...

• Can you execute JavaScript without a browser?
  2 projects | reddit.com/r/learnjavascript | 16 Dec 2021

  That said, you can use a "headless browser", which allows you to automate a full browser like Chrome or Firefox, just without a visible UI shell, via a script or command line. This is often used for automated end-to-end testing. Both Chrome and Firefox have native support for headless mode, and can be automated/controlled using tools like Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright and Cypress.