
Since version 1.7.0 we publish the puppeteer-core package,a version of Puppeteer that doesn't download Chromium by default. To skip the download, see Environment variables. Note: When you install Puppeteer, it downloads a recent version of Chromium (~170MB Mac, ~282MB Linux, ~280MB Win) that is guaranteed to work with the API.
```bashnpm i puppeteer or "yarn add puppeteer" Give it a spin: Getting Started Installation
Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues. Run your tests directly in the latest version of Chrome using the latest JavaScript and browser features. Create an up-to-date, automated testing environment. Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc. Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages. Most things that you can do manually in the browser can be done using Puppeteer! Here are a few examples to get you started: Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. API | FAQ | Contributing | Troubleshooting