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Puppeteer

Drive Chrome with Node.js: 96k stars of browser automation.

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About

Puppeteer is the Node.js library for driving Chrome/Chromium via the DevTools protocol: screenshots, PDFs, scraping, testing, and automation with a high-level API. 95.7k stars, Apache-2.0, 51M npm downloads/month — the default browser-automation choice in the Node ecosystem. Playwright has surpassed it for cross-browser testing, but for Chrome-first automation (scraping, rendering, PDF generation) Puppeteer remains the simplest path.

What it can do

  • **Chrome automation**: full DevTools protocol control
  • **Screenshots & PDFs**: one-liners
  • **Network control**: interception and mocking
  • **Headless & headful**: both modes
  • **Huge ecosystem**: plugins and integrations

Setup

```bash

npm install puppeteer

```

```js

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

(async () => {

const browser = await puppeteer.launch();

const page = await browser.newPage();

await page.goto('https://example.com');

console.log(await page.title());

await browser.close();

})();

```

Docs: pptr.dev.

Prerequisites

Node 18+. Chrome downloads automatically on install.

Use cases

browser automationscrapingtestingPDF

Works with

custom

Trust score — 10/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 10/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 95,683 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers); blended with ~51,067,017 monthly package downloads; last push 0d ago; 100 releases/12mo; 273 open issues. Manual review: Chrome automation for Node (95.7k stars, 51M npm/mo); Playwright surpassed it for cross-browser; Chrome-first. License: Apache-2.0.

★ 95,683 GitHub stars

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
9.4/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
9.9/10
Openness · license + docs
10.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
9.0/10
  • · 95,683 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
  • · blended with ~51,067,017 monthly package downloads
  • · last push 0d ago; 100 releases/12mo; 273 open issues
  • · manual review: Chrome automation for Node (95.7k stars, 51M npm/mo); Playwright surpassed it for cross-browser; Chrome-first

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