Puppeteer

Two of the most popular programming languages. But which to use for web scraping in 2024?

Learn how to start a browser with Puppeteer, click buttons and wait for actions, and how to extract data from websites. From building a basic scraper to large-scale crawling.

Find out how to download and upload files in Puppeteer. Discover how to use Puppeteer to streamline your web automation tasks.

Want to capture screenshots or create PDFs from web pages? Puppeteer makes it easy. Find out how in this step-by-step guide with code examples.

Find out how to use Puppeteer to handle forms, buttons, and inputs. Learn about type method, click method, and how to deal with text fields, dropdowns, and checkboxes.

Our complete guide to the pros and cons of Puppeteer and Selenium will help you choose which is better for your automation project.

Websites trying to detect headless browsers vs. headless browsers trying to evade detection is a cat-and-mouse game that probably won’t end any time soon. We have a couple of solutions to keep you ahead of that game.

Both are very powerful Node.js libraries useful for every web automation programmer’s toolkit. So why would you choose one over the other? Let's dive in.

What if a single decision could cut your scraping costs by 90% while improving efficiency up to 60%? That's precisely what the retail data company, Daltix, experienced by migrating their scrapers from Scrapy to Apify.

Quick guide to 4 different fast and effective (and very simple) ways to help you authenticate your proxy in Puppeteer with Headless Chrome.

Since the launch of Apify actors last autumn, Apify is no longer just a tool to extract data from websites. It has become a full-featured serverless computing platform that enables people to automate workflows on the web, run data processing pipelines or integrate with third-party systems.

We have released a new open-source package called proxy-chain on NPM to enable running headless Chrome and Puppeteer over a proxy server that requires authentication.