

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.

log( "CHILD: url received from parent process", url) Ĭonst browser = await puppeteer.API | FAQ | Contributing | Troubleshooting The code snippet below is a simple example of running parallel downloads with Puppeteer.Ĭonst downloadPath = path. 💡 If you are not familiar with how child process work in Node I highly encourage you to give this article a read. We can combine the child process module with our Puppeteer script and download files in parallel. Child process is how Node.js handles parallel programming. We can fork multiple child_proces in Node. Our CPU cores can run multiple processes at the same time. 💡 Learn more about the single threaded architecture of node here Therefore if we have to download 10 files each 1 gigabyte in size and each requiring about 3 mins to download then with a single process we will have to wait for 10 x 3 = 30 minutes for the task to finish. It can only execute one process at a time. You see Node.js in its core is a single-threaded system. However, if you have to download multiple large files things start to get complicated. In this next part, we will dive deep into some of the advanced concepts.
