Browser Automation Tools

Comments compare a new tool to established browser automation libraries like Selenium, Puppeteer, PhantomJS, and Playwright for testing, scraping, and automation tasks.

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3abiton • Feb 20, 2024 • View on HN

How does it compare to selenium or puppeteer?

y4mi • Dec 8, 2019 • View on HN

Like.... Selenium or puppeteer?

Charlesmigli • Dec 4, 2012 • View on HN

Doesn't phantomjs do the thing for you?

MauroIksem • Jun 10, 2021 • View on HN

Have you tried selinium and phantomjs headless ? I was using that a few years ago and it worked very well.

jacob019 • Feb 19, 2023 • View on HN

Can this be used like selenium for testing/scraping/automation? If you can open tabs, dump the DOM and inject JS, then I would think so.

sebazzz • Jul 23, 2019 • View on HN

For automated testing, why Puppeteer instead of Selenium?

one87 • Feb 28, 2018 • View on HN

Uhhhm, that's just a wrapper around Selenium...

tuktuktuk • Feb 22, 2024 • View on HN

I think puppeteer is the way to go!

fsiefken • May 28, 2017 • View on HN

does anyone know how this compares to phantomjs?

vmfunction • Mar 14, 2024 • View on HN

is there anything like this for Puppeteer? Selenium is just ab it heavy.