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Playwright vs puppeteer

A side-by-side look at Playwright and puppeteer. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Playwright

Playwright

Development

Playwright is an open-source web testing framework developed by Microsoft. It allows for end-to-end testing of web applications by automating browser interactions like a real user. Playwright supports multiple browsers including Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

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puppeteer

puppeteer

Development

Puppeteer is a Node.js library developed by Google which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It allows developers to automate browser testing and scraping tasks.

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