What are puppeteers for?

Puppeteer is a Node library that provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium browsers over the DevTools Protocol . … A headless browser is a web browser, without a graphical user interface, that is mainly used for automated testing.

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How do you use a Puppeteer?

To use Puppeteer with a different version of Chrome or Chromium, pass in the executable’s path when creating a Browser instance : const browser = await puppeteer. launch({ executablePath: ‘/path/to/Chrome’ }); You can also use Puppeteer with Firefox Nightly (experimental support).

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Is Puppeteer better than Selenium?

Considering all the above factors, Puppeteer is the go-to tool if devs and testers are specifically working with Google Browser alone . But considering the fact that cross-browser testing must be conducted across platforms and using multiple programming languages, Selenium is the best fit for automation testing.

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