Puppeteer - Usage of Google



Puppeteer usages are listed below −

  • Puppeteer can be used for scrapping contents from a webpage. The scrapping means pulling out data from a particular website.

  • Puppeteer can be used to capture screenshots. It can be used to export web pages in the form of a PDF.

  • Puppeteer does not require an external driver or library. It can be run on the actual browser in a headless mode.

  • It can be used as a good alternative to other browser automation tools like Selenium or Cypress. Sometimes, puppeteer features are even better than both of them.

  • It is super-fast in execution and can be used to execute tests in headless and headed modes.

  • Puppeteer has a very agile community support having more than 60,000 starts in GitHub. Refer the link given herewith: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer

  • Puppeteer supports headless execution and hence it can be used in platforms like Unix, Linux, Cloud, AWS, and so on.

  • It can be used to crawl a SPA (Single Page Application) and produce pre-rendered content. The crawling means saving a local static object of a webpage and utilising it offline in the absence of the real webpage obtained from the internet.

  • It can be used for the automating majority of UI testing, keyboards, mouse movements, form submissions etc.

  • Puppeteer can be used to construct a recent, automated test environment. It can run tests on the latest version Chrome by utilising the most recent features of JavaScript and browser.

  • Puppeteer can be used to obtain the timeline trace of a web application to determine its performance. Moreover, it can be used to check the Chrome Extensions and to obtain the coverage of HTML and CSS utilized by a webpage.

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