Puppeteer Alternatives

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• Playwright and Chrome Browser Testing in Heroku
  6 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2024

  The example setup from the blog post was a React app tested with Puppeteer and Jest. That’s a great start … but what if I use Playwright instead of Puppeteer? Is it possible?

• Using curl-impersonate in Node.js to avoid blocks
  6 projects | dev.to | 21 Nov 2024

  If you are an expert in Node.js web automation, you might assume that using headless browsers controlled by technologies like Playwright or Puppeteer is more effective than utilizing curl-impersonate. No surprise, those two libraries are listed in our list of the best Node.js web scraping technologies. After all, browser automation tools also enable you to interact with the elements on the page. However, curl-impersonate is just an HTTP client that can only retrieve web pages. Still, there are Node.js web automation scenarios where a library like node-curl-impersonate might be a better choice than Playwright or Puppeteer. The reason for this is that anti-bot systems often use a two-step approach to detect and block bots. The first step checks if the request is coming from a legitimate browser, as explained earlier in this article. If the request seems suspicious, it is blocked. Otherwise, the server delivers the HTML document of the page. The page includes special JavaScript scripts that inspect the browser's settings and configurations to generate a browser fingerprint. This is then sent back to the anti-bot system to determine whether the user is legitimate. The second step works because automation tools tend to configure browsers in ways that differ from regular browsers. These differences are enough for anti-bot solutions to understand that they are dealing with an automated request. For more information, check out our guide on Playwright Extra. In contrast, curl-impersonate cannot render JavaScript, skipping the second step entirely. If the second step is not required to be considered a legitimate user, node-curl-impersonate can continue to effectively send requests to the target server without resource overheads and slowness typical of headless browsers — even in headles mode.

• How to scrape Hacker News to create a daily email summary
  1 project | dev.to | 23 Oct 2024

  In this tutorial, you'll create a Trigger.dev task that scrapes the top 3 articles from Hacker News using BrowserBase and Puppeteer, summarizes them with ChatGPT and sends a nicely formatted email summary to yourself every weekday at 9AM using Resend.

• Turn any website into a type-safe API using AI (part 1)
  3 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2024

  We'll create another function which loads the page in a real browser and then extracts the rendered HTML content as soon as the page finished loading. We can use puppeteer to accomplish this:

• How To Create a Zalando Scraper
  2 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2024

  In this blog, we’ll show you how to create a reliable Zalando scraper with Puppeteer - a well-known web scraping tool. You’ll learn how to pull out product details such as prices, sizes, and stock levels. We’ll also give you tips on how to handle CAPTCHA, IP blocking, and how to scale your scraper with Crawlbase Smart Proxy.

• An NFC Movie Library for My Kids
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2024

  You could probably do it using something like Puppeteer [0].

  [0]: https://pptr.dev/

• Web scraping- Interesting!
  1 project | dev.to | 5 Sep 2024

  Puppeteer

• Scrape the web with puppeteer!
  1 project | dev.to | 28 Aug 2024

  Just as described on the docs

• Day21 of 100DaysOfCode
  1 project | dev.to | 22 Aug 2024

  Execution context was destroyed, most likely because of a navigation #3323

• Day20 of 100DaysOfCode
  1 project | dev.to | 18 Aug 2024

  "page.waitForXPath is not a function" in 22.10.0

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