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puppeteer vs Selenium IDE

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

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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Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE

Development

Selenium IDE is an open-source Chrome and Firefox browser extension for creating and running automated web application UI tests. It allows users to record interactions with web apps to generate test scripts that can be exported and used with Selenium WebDriver.

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