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What is Puppeteer?

Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.
Puppeteer is a tool in the Headless Browsers category of a tech stack.
Puppeteer is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Puppeteer's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Puppeteer?

Companies
114 companies reportedly use Puppeteer in their tech stacks, including Shelf, Frontend Stack, and hogangnono.

Developers
336 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Puppeteer.

Puppeteer Integrations

Node.js, BrowserStack, Checkly, Catchpoint Synthetics, and Root Cause are some of the popular tools that integrate with Puppeteer. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Puppeteer.
Pros of Puppeteer
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Very well documented
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Scriptable web browser
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Promise based
Decisions about Puppeteer

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Puppeteer in their tech stack.

Lily Goykhman
Engineering management at SB · | 3 upvotes · 24.8K views
Needs advice
on
PlaywrightPlaywright
and
PuppeteerPuppeteer

Test automation - Puppeteer is used currently, just rudimentary stuff, but considering the better choices with Playwright?

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Needs advice
on
CypressCypressTestCafeTestCafe
and
WebdriverIOWebdriverIO

Hello, I am currently looking for a tool for automation tests in order to implement it into our CI/CD pipeline for both web development but also for Android and iOS. I considered Cypress but I need compatibility with Safari. I have knowledge of Java, C#, and JavaScript so the language isn't an issue. Also looked into Nightwatchjs and Puppeteer but found these 3 above more interesting.

My main concern is:

  • Browser support - Desktop - needs to support Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft Edge (minimum)
  • Browser support - Mobile - Safari and Chrome (minimum)
  • App - Android and iOS

If possible i would like to avoid using another tool for mobile (like Appium)

What do you use? What is the one you recommend (even another from the ones mentioned)

Thank you very much for your help!

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Raziel Alron
Automation Engineer at Tipalti · | 7 upvotes · 2M views
Needs advice
on
PuppeteerPuppeteer
and
WebdriverIOWebdriverIO

Currently, we are using Protractor in our project. Since Protractor isn't updated anymore, we are looking for a new tool. The strongest suggestions are WebdriverIO or Puppeteer. Please help me figure out what tool would make the transition fastest and easiest. Please note that Protractor uses its own locator system, and we want the switch to be as simple as possible. Thank you!

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Needs advice
on
PuppeteerPuppeteerseleniumselenium
and
ScrapyScrapy

I work in a company building web apps with AngularJS. I started using Selenium for tests automation, as I am more familiar with Python. However, I found some difficulties, like the impossibility of using IDs and fixed lists of classes, ending up with using xpaths most, which unfortunately could change with fixes and modifications in the code.

So, I started using Puppeteer, but I am still learning. It seems easier to find elements on the webpage, even if the creation and managing of arrays of elements seem to be a little bit more complicated than in Selenium, but it could be also due to my poor knowledge of JavaScript.

Any comments on this comparison and also on comparisons with similar tools are welcome! :)

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Puppeteer Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Puppeteer?
Chef
Chef enables you to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions. Freely move applications and configurations from one cloud to another. Chef is integrated with all major cloud providers including Amazon EC2, VMWare, IBM Smartcloud, Rackspace, OpenStack, Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Google Compute Engine, Joyent Cloud and others.
Selenium
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
Salt
Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management. Easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to communicate with them in seconds. Salt delivers a dynamic communication bus for infrastructures that can be used for orchestration, remote execution, configuration management and much more.
Puppet Labs
Puppet is an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems and performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
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