Puppeteer
Headless Chrome/Chromium automation for scraping, testing and screenshot generation.
Scraping, browsers and parsing npm Apache-2.0
Used in agent projects
115
0.9% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in scraping, browsers and parsing
#2 of 16
by use in those projects
Downloads
11.4M
npm, last 7 days, puppeteer
GitHub stars
95.7K
last push Oct 9, 2026
How Puppeteer is used
Puppeteer is a dependency in 115 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.9%), #2 of 16 in scraping, browsers and parsing. The most used alternative there is Beautiful Soup. Projects that use it most often also use dotenv (48.7%), Playwright (JavaScript) (33.9%), Axios (35.7%).
Often used with Puppeteer
| dotenv | 48.7% of Puppeteer projects · 3.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 33.9% of Puppeteer projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Axios | 35.7% of Puppeteer projects · 3.6× more than average |
| TypeScript | 76.5% of Puppeteer projects |
| jsdom | 22.6% of Puppeteer projects · 4.2× more than average |
| Jest | 21.7% of Puppeteer projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Zod | 36.5% of Puppeteer projects · 2.2× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 51.3% of Puppeteer projects · 1.5× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 1.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.7% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.5% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 2.6% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Puppeteer as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install puppeteer |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (66), Next.js (35), Python (7), PHP (6) |
| Example projects | rajyraman/Levelup-for-Dynamics-CRM, nirholas/three.ws, bobmatnyc/claude-mpm, solana-foundation/templates, alkrauss48/simple-slides |
Alternatives to Puppeteer
| 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 |
| 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 |
| soupsieve pypi CSS selector implementation for BeautifulSoup to query HTML and XML documents. |
39 (0.3%) | 70.4M | 271 | — |