Even though Puppeteer and Playwright sport similar APIs, Puppeteer seems to have a sizeable speed advantage on shorter scripts (close to 30% in our observations). Puppeteer and Playwright scripts show faster execution time (close to 20% in E2E scenarios) compared to the Selenium and DevTools WebDriverIO flavours.
Read moreIs puppeteer a headless browser?
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default , but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.
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Security: Puppeteer operates off-process with respect to Chromium, making it safe to automate potentially malicious pages . Stability: Puppeteer should not be flaky and should not leak memory. Simplicity: Puppeteer provides a high-level API that’s easy to use, understand, and debug.
Read moreWhat is puppeteer used for?
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol . It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.
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