puppeteer/examples

Running the examples

Assuming you have a checkout of the Puppeteer repo and have run npm i (or yarn) to install the dependencies, and npm run build (or yarn run build) to build the project, the examples can be run from the root folder like so:

NODE_PATH=../ node examples/search.js

Larger examples

More complex and use case driven examples can be found at github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/puppeteer-examples.

Other resources

Other useful tools, articles, and projects that use Puppeteer.

Rendering and web scraping

• Puppetron - Demo site that shows how to use Puppeteer and Headless Chrome to render pages. Inspired by GoogleChrome/rendertron.
• Thal - Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping.
• pupperender - Express middleware that checks the User-Agent header of incoming requests, and if it matches one of a configurable set of bots, render the page using Puppeteer. Useful for PWA rendering.
• headless-chrome-crawler - Crawler that provides simple APIs to manipulate Headless Chrome and allows you to crawl dynamic websites.
• puppeteer-examples - Puppeteer Headless Chrome examples for real life use cases such as getting useful info from the web pages or common login scenarios.
• browserless - Headless Chrome as a service letting you execute Puppeteer scripts remotely. Provides a docker image with configuration for concurrency, launch arguments and more.
• Puppeteer on AWS Lambda - Running puppeteer on AWS Lambda with Serverless framework
• Apify SDK - The scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript. Automatically manages a pool of Puppeteer browsers and provides easy error handling, task management, proxy rotation and more.

Testing

• angular-puppeteer-demo - Demo repository explaining how to use Puppeteer in Karma.
• mocha-headless-chrome - Tool which runs client-side mocha tests in the command line through headless Chrome.
• puppeteer-to-istanbul-example - Demo repository demonstrating how to output Puppeteer coverage in Istanbul format.
• jest-puppeteer - (almost) Zero configuration tool for setting up and running Jest and Puppeteer easily. Also includes an assertion library for Puppeteer.
• puppeteer-har - Generate HAR file with puppeteer.
• puppetry - A desktop app to build Puppeteer/Jest driven tests without coding.
• puppeteer-loadtest - commandline interface for performing load test on puppeteer scripts.
• cucumber-puppeteer-example - Example repository demonstrating how to use Puppeeteer and Cucumber for integration testing.

Services

• Checkly - Monitoring SaaS that uses Puppeteer to check availability and correctness of web pages and apps.
• Doppio - SaaS API to create screenshots or PDFs from HTML/CSS/JS