Puppeteer: Headless Automated Testing, Scraping, and Downloading

This tutorial walks you through every thing you need to know about Puppeteer and headless browsers, so you can automate website testing, web scraping, fetching and downloading content, and more.

Pages for testing headless status:

0:00:00 intro and install
0:03:26 basic commands
0:18:50 interface testing
0:47:26 web scraping
1:05:33 downloading images and files

[tjpyskx]

40 years old guy here diving into frontend. I''m only 15 mins in and I've already learned so much! Thank you, Steve. You're awesome!

[reallions]

excellent video. i've been trying to get into web scraping for a few months and the slow and methodical way of teaching really helped. thanks from a self-taught programmer

[Chris-qgkc]

I love and appreciate what you bring to the table. Very refined and polished teaching technique with a good voice.

[patrickconrad]

Dude for years I loom for great in depth Node content and i always come across your videos and they are so freaking helpful. Thanks for everything

[kranzaklilu]

Loving the new thumbnails. Thanks for your work

[BitWizCoder]

Thanks for the video, really enjoyd it. can't wait tor try some scrapping with the Puppeteer.

[fredthefed]

Felt like the Bob Ross of coding. Very informative. Concise and clear. Great presentation. TY!

[BunniesAI]

Very vey good walkthrough. Loved it 🫶🏻

[kubataiupov]

Awsome stuff man. Awesome explanations. Thanks a lot.

[picozzimichele]

One of the best videos about this so far, explained very well!

[loydcose]

I'm absolutely thrilled that I stumbled upon this video. It's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for creating such fantastic content! 🙌🙌

[brucewayne]

Learning something new with this vid. Thanks Steve, again!

[israelortiz]

Man. you always do great content. Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge. 👍

[barungh]

Awesome, I mean saving the screenshot along with data in json file - it is really nice approach to Web Scraping, and you showed both in your tutorial, thanks

[MikeChalmers]

what a brilliant tutorial. this is the clearest and most engaging coding video i can remember. thanks!

[RafaelSales]

I'm in my first job, and because of you I could learn how to use Puppeteer. I hope I can learn more with you, good job and thank you a lot!

[seanduignan]

I built a few tools with this framework a year or so ago for work. It forced me to learn some javascript properly - from your channel. FYI: have a look at playwright.

[AlexBodrovFamily]

so nice! Didn't know such headless browser exists at my 36 now :( So looks like you could write end-to-end tests with it easily without using any framework ? I can also think of puppeteer + ChatGPT API combo. Thanks for this super clear and easy to grasp content, Mr. Steve!

[greatnile]

thanks a lot for the valuable video.

a question in a different context:
are you planning to make video of a deep dive into the new OPFS (origin private file system) APIs?

[nattanontesavibul]

kept getting this error. Does anyone knows how to fix this?
Error: Could not find Chromium (rev. 1108766). This can occur if either
1. you did not perform an installation before running the script (e.g. `npm install`) or
2. your cache path is incorrectly configured (which is: