Puppeteer Knowledgebase

Puppeteer is a powerful Node.js library that provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium browsers. It is widely used for web scraping, web automation, and testing web applications. Puppeteer allows developers to interact with web pages, take screenshots, generate PDFs, and extract data from websites.

In web scraping, Puppeteer is restricted to Javascript language (NodeJS) and while it can be limiting it's still a very powerful tool.

How to Web Scrape with Puppeteer and NodeJS in 2025

Introduction to using Puppeteer in Nodejs for web scraping dynamic web pages and web apps. Tips and tricks, best practices and example project.

How to Web Scrape with Puppeteer and NodeJS in 2025

See below for more on Puppeteer in the context of web scraping and data programming 👇

How to take screenshots in NodeJS?

Learn how to screenshot in Node.js using Playwright & Puppeteer. Includes installation, concepts, and customization tips.

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How to handle popup dialogs in Puppeteer?

To click on a popup dialog in Puppeteer the dialog even can be captured and interacted with using page.on("dialog") method. Here's how to do it.

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How to click on cookie popups and modal alerts in Puppeteer?

To handle modal popups like cookie consents in Puppeteer the popup can be closed through a button click or removed entirely. Here's how.

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How to scroll to the bottom of the page with Puppeteer?

To scrape to the very bottom of the page with Puppeteer the javascript evaluation feature can be used within a while loop. Here's how.

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Getting started with Puppeteer Stealth

Puppeteer-stealth is a popular plugin for Puppeteer browser automation library. It patches browsers to be less detectible. Here's how to get started.

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How to capture background requests and responses in Puppeteer?

To capture background requests and response in Puppeteer we can use page.on() method to intercept every request/response. Here's how.

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How to find elements by CSS selector in Puppeteer?

To find HTML elements using CSS selectors in Puppeteer the $ and $eval methods can be used. Here's how to use them.

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How to find elements by XPath in Puppeteer?

To find elements by XPath using Puppeteer the "$x()" method can be used which will execute XPath selection on the current page DOM.

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