Do I need Puppeteer for Chrome?

By default, Puppeteer downloads and uses a specific version of Chromium so its API is guaranteed to work out of the box. 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.

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Is Puppeteer good for web scraping?

After all, if it can do anything a standard browser can do, then it can be extremely useful for web scrapers . Namely, it can help with executing javascript code so that the scraper can reach the page’s HTML and imitating normal user behavior by scrolling through the page or clicking on random sections.

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