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Learn Puppeteer & Playwright

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Tips, tricks, and in-depth guides from the trenches. Learn how to use the popular open-source browser automation frameworks, Puppeteer and Playwright. This guide provides detailed information and examples how you can write high-quality scripts for testing and synthetic monitoring.

Getting Started

Have a look at how Puppeteer & Playwright work, what similarities they share, as well as the noticeable differences.

What is Puppeteer?

Learn what's behind the popular Node.js library from Google and the use cases it serves.

What is Playwright

Built on the experience of Puppeteer, Microsofts' Playwright offers unique features.

Setup Puppeteer and Playwright

Prepare to write your first scripts and learn how the setup works.

Diving Deeper

Puppeteer and Playwright are extremely powerful and serve a wide range of use cases. We have collected in-depth articles for important scenarios and challenging automation flows.

End to end scenarios

Learn how to script complete user scenarios from signup to checkout.

Session Management

Learn how to use cookies to set states to simplify your scripts.

Best Practices

Learn about guidelines to write quality automation scripts.

Performance

Learn how you can use Puppeteer & Playwright to measure page performances.

Basic Navigation

Working with navigation and waits are the fundamental of any script.

Request Interception

Learn how to control HTTP requests and responses.

Basic Selectors

Working with selectors is key for writing high quality scripts.