puppeteer/examples

Running the examples

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

NODE_PATH=../ node examples/search.js

Tips & Tricks

Load a Chrome extension

By default, Puppeteer disables extensions when launching Chrome. You can load a specific extension using:

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  headless: false,
  args: [
    '--disable-extensions-except=/path/to/extension/',
    '--load-extension=/path/to/extension/',
  ]
});

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 manupluate Headless Chrome and allows you to crawl dynamic websites.

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.