Browsing without a GUI#
Puppeteer allows you to control a Chrome or Chromium instance using NodeJs. The real benefit is running Puppeteer as a headless browser, meaning you don't have any GUI to interact with but you can navigate pages, interact with buttons and take screenshots all from your node script. For example:
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer'); async function screenshot() { const browser = await puppeteer.launch({}); const page = await browser.newPage(); await page.goto('https://www.google.com'); await page.screenshot({path: 'GoogleOn' + new Date().toDateString() + '.png'}); browser.close(); } screenshot();