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PhantomJS vs Puppeteer: What are the differences?
Developers describe PhantomJS as "Scriptable Headless WebKit". PhantomJS (www.phantomjs.org) is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow. On the other hand, Puppeteer is detailed as "Headless Chrome Node API". 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.
PhantomJS and Puppeteer can be categorized as "Headless Browsers" tools.
PhantomJS and Puppeteer are both open source tools. Puppeteer with 51.1K GitHub stars and 4.71K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than PhantomJS with 26.9K GitHub stars and 5.7K GitHub forks.
Key Location, Tailor Brands, and NationBuilder are some of the popular companies that use PhantomJS, whereas Puppeteer is used by Huddle, Better, and Orangesys Inc.. PhantomJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 77 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to Puppeteer, which is listed in 25 company stacks and 18 developer stacks.
Pros of PhantomJS
- Scriptable web browser13
- No ECMAScript 62
- Depends on QT2
Pros of Puppeteer
- Very well documented7
- Scriptable web browser6
- Promise based3
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Cons of PhantomJS
Cons of Puppeteer
- Chrome only5