Puppeteer 简明教程

Puppeteer - Usage of Google

Puppeteer 的用法列于下方：

Puppeteer usages are listed below −

  1. Puppeteer can be used for scrapping contents from a webpage. The scrapping means pulling out data from a particular website.

  2. Puppeteer can be used to capture screenshots. It can be used to export web pages in the form of a PDF.

  3. Puppeteer does not require an external driver or library. It can be run on the actual browser in a headless mode.

  4. It can be used as a good alternative to other browser automation tools like Selenium or Cypress. Sometimes, puppeteer features are even better than both of them.

  5. It is super-fast in execution and can be used to execute tests in headless and headed modes.

  6. Puppeteer has a very agile community support having more than 60,000 starts in GitHub. Refer the link given herewith: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer

  7. Puppeteer supports headless execution and hence it can be used in platforms like Unix, Linux, Cloud, AWS, and so on.

  8. It can be used to crawl a SPA (Single Page Application) and produce pre-rendered content. The crawling means saving a local static object of a webpage and utilising it offline in the absence of the real webpage obtained from the internet.

  9. It can be used for the automating majority of UI testing, keyboards, mouse movements, form submissions etc.

  10. Puppeteer can be used to construct a recent, automated test environment. It can run tests on the latest version Chrome by utilising the most recent features of JavaScript and browser.

  11. Puppeteer can be used to obtain the timeline trace of a web application to determine its performance. Moreover, it can be used to check the Chrome Extensions and to obtain the coverage of HTML and CSS utilized by a webpage.