We also have different elements inside a web page that we can interact with: dialogs, downloads, authentication forms, videos, etc. With a browser automation tool, we can simulate interactions using input devices (keyboard, mouse, etc.), or we can verify that visual elements are working and displayed correctly. Its purpose is to achieve efficiency and speed at a certain level that wouldn't be possible if we rely on human interaction. "Browser automation" is the action of automating the usage of a web browser. In this article, we will see how to implement automatic workflows interacting with a web browser instance. One example of this is the dynamic generation of files and images. We get consistent results over iterations.īesides the benefits that automation brings us, there are some scenarios that couldn't be achieved if we don't execute an automatic process.Some of the reasons why we should try to automate our workflows are: puppeteerrc.cjs (or of the goals every developer has is to automate as many actions and tasks as possible. Puppeteer uses several defaults that can be customized through configurationįor example, to change the default cache directory Puppeteer uses to installīrowsers, you can add a. Include $HOME/.cache into the project's deployment.įor a version of Puppeteer without the browser installation, see Your project folder (see an example below) because not all hosting providers Heroku, you might need to reconfigure the location of the cache to be within If you deploy a project using Puppeteer to a hosting provider, such as Render or The browser is downloaded to the $HOME/.cache/puppeteer folderīy default (starting with Puppeteer v19.0.0).
When you install Puppeteer, it automatically downloads a recent version ofĬhrome for Testing (~170MB macOS, ~282MB Linux, ~280MB Windows) that is guaranteed to
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