A Minimal Puppeteer Exampleīefore we embark upon our Docker journey, we need a simple Puppeteer program we can test with. In this article, we’ll see why this combination is problematic and how to solve it.
However, since deploying a browser is fundamentally more complicated than your average API, Puppeteer and Docker are a little tricky to get working together. Browser automation is also very common for automated testing of web applications, and may also be used for a lot of other things.Īs with any other piece of software, it is sometimes convenient to package a Puppeteer script in a Docker container. I’ve already shown it in action a couple of years ago in my article, “ Gathering Net Salary Data with Puppeteer“, where I used it for web scraping. Puppeteer runs in headless mode by default, but can be configured to run in full (non-headless) Chrome/Chromium.”
“Puppeteer is a Node.js library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer is an API enabling browser automation via Chrome/Chromium.
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