Web Scraping Using Node.JS

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Puppeteer – Web Scraping using Headless Chrome Node API

Puppeteer is Headless Chrome browser developed by Google Team. A headless browser is a web browser without a graphical user interface(GUI) means that it has no visual components. Headless browsers enable you to control web page via programming without human intervention. In Programmer’s term, Puppeteer is a node library or API for Headless browsing as well as browser automation developed by Google Chrome team.
web scraping with chrome
Browser automation helps you to automate repetitive tasks and web application testing. For example, monitoring product pricing over period of time, form submission, automatically login to web app, perform some task and logout etc.

There are many libraries for browser automation and web scraping like PhantomJS, Selenium IDE etc. However Puppeteer runs faster and uses less memory. Puppeteer only works with Google Chrome browser.Puppeteer can be used for:

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