Puppeteer Core
Headless Chrome/Chromium control library for automation and testing.
Scraping, browsers and parsing npm Apache-2.0
Used in agent projects
31
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#12 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
22.8M
npm, last 7 days, puppeteer-core
GitHub stars
95.7K
last push Oct 9, 2026
How Puppeteer Core is used
Puppeteer Core is a dependency in 31 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #12 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use Vitest (48.4%), Playwright (JavaScript) (38.7%), dotenv (45.2%).
Often used with Puppeteer Core
| Vitest | 48.4% of Puppeteer Core projects · 4.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 38.7% of Puppeteer Core projects · 4.4× more than average |
| dotenv | 45.2% of Puppeteer Core projects · 2.9× more than average |
| Sharp | 32.3% of Puppeteer Core projects · 10.5× more than average |
| Vite | 51.6% of Puppeteer Core projects · 2.3× more than average |
| TypeScript | 80.6% of Puppeteer Core projects |
| jsdom | 25.8% of Puppeteer Core projects · 4.8× more than average |
| uuid | 22.6% of Puppeteer Core projects · 6.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Puppeteer Core as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install puppeteer-core |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (21), Next.js (8), Python (2) |
| Example projects | wesbos/wesbos, TheAgent-net/webagent, rajyraman/Levelup-for-Dynamics-CRM, nirholas/three.ws, guimatheus92/mcp-video-analyzer |
Alternatives to Puppeteer Core
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup pypi Python HTML/XML parsing and screen-scraping library for web data extraction. |
160 (1.3%) | 69M | — | MIT License |
| Puppeteer npm Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation. |
115 (0.9%) | 11.4M | 95.7K | Apache-2.0 |
| lxml pypi High-performance XML and HTML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with Python. |
98 (0.8%) | 88.4M | 3,065 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Cheerio npm jQuery-like syntax for parsing and manipulating HTML/XML with server-side speed. |
94 (0.7%) | 26.6M | 30.5K | MIT |
| Playwright (Python) pypi High-level Python API for automating browser testing and web scraping. |
68 (0.5%) | 26M | 15K | — |
| fast-xml-parser npm High-performance XML parser and builder without native dependencies. |
58 (0.5%) | 83.3M | 3,139 | MIT |
| csv-parse npm Parse CSV files using Node.js streaming Transform API for memory-efficient processing. |
51 (0.4%) | 20.6M | 4,280 | MIT |
| Playwright Core npm Headless browser automation library for cross-browser testing and web scraping. |
49 (0.4%) | 122M | 97.4K | Apache-2.0 |