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Puppeteer: Automate Browsers

Name: Puppeteer: Automate Browsers
Author: puppeteer

Get browser automation with Puppeteer. For founders who need reliable testing and automation tools.

94,447 stars9,425 forksTypeScriptQuality 8/10Updated 6/5/2026100% free · open source

What it does

Puppeteer is a browser automation tool that allows you to control Chrome or Firefox programmatically for reliable testing and scraping workflows.

Install / run

npm i puppeteer

When to use it

•You need to automate user interactions on your web app for testing purposes
•You want to scrape data from websites that use a lot of JavaScript
•You need to generate PDFs or screenshots of web pages programmatically

Quick start

1Launch a browser instance with `const browser = await puppeteer.launch();`
2Create a new page with `const page = await browser.newPage();`
3Navigate to a webpage with `await page.goto('https://example.com');`
4Take a screenshot with `await page.screenshot({ path: 'example.png' });`
5Close the browser instance with `await browser.close();`

Ready-to-paste prompt

await page.evaluate(() => document.querySelector('title').textContent); // Retrieves the title of the current page

Heads up: Ensure you have the correct version of Node.js installed, as Puppeteer requires at least Node.js 14.17.0

Saves to your device

Topics

automation

chrome

chromium

developer-tools

firefox

headless-chrome

node-module

testing

web

What's inside — free to inspect

No purchase needed

Read the entire source before you build — unlike paid marketplaces that hide it behind a buy button.

top-level files

folders

1419.4M

repo size

Apache-2.0

license

Key files

.editorconfig

eslint.config.mjs

package.json

prettier.config.js

puppeteer.config.js

README.md

File tree

.devcontainer/

.github/

.vscode/

docker/

docs/

examples/

packages/

test/

test-d/

tools/

website/

.editorconfig

.gitattributes

.gitignore

.mocharc.cjs

.npmrc

.nvmrc

.prettierignore

.release-please-manifest.json

CHANGELOG.md

eslint.config.mjs

Herebyfile.mjs

LICENSE

package-lock.json

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Details

Creator

puppeteer

Language

TypeScript

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