
Puppeteer Has a Free API — Browser Automation by Google
Puppeteer is Google's free Node.js library for controlling Chrome/Chromium — the tool behind every serious web scraping and browser automation project. Why Puppeteer? Official Google project — maintained by the Chrome DevTools team Headless and headed modes — run without visible browser for speed Full Chrome DevTools Protocol — access everything Chrome can do PDF generation — render any page to pixel-perfect PDF Screenshot API — full page or element-level captures Network interception — modify requests and responses on the fly Quick Start # Install (downloads Chromium automatically) npm install puppeteer # Or without bundled browser (use your own Chrome) npm install puppeteer-core Web Scraping Example import puppeteer from " puppeteer " ; const browser = await puppeteer . launch (); const page = await browser . newPage (); await page . goto ( " https://news.ycombinator.com " ); // Extract all story titles and links const stories = await page . $ $eval ( " .titleline > a " , ( links ) =
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