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@puppeteer/browsers

Download and launch browsers

1.4.0
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Version published: last year

Weekly downloads: 4.1M; decreased by-7.15%

Maintainers: 2

Created: last year

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What is @puppeteer/browsers?

@puppeteer/browsers is a package that provides tools for managing browser binaries for Puppeteer. It allows you to download, install, and manage different versions of browsers like Chrome and Firefox, which can be used with Puppeteer for web scraping, automated testing, and other browser automation tasks.

What are @puppeteer/browsers's main functionalities?

Download a specific browser version

This feature allows you to download a specific version of a browser. In this example, it downloads Chrome version 91.0.4472.124.

const { downloadBrowser } = require('@puppeteer/browsers');

(async () => {
  await downloadBrowser('chrome', '91.0.4472.124');
})();

List available browser versions

This feature lists all available versions of a specified browser. In this example, it lists all available versions of Chrome.

const { listBrowserVersions } = require('@puppeteer/browsers');

(async () => {
  const versions = await listBrowserVersions('chrome');
  console.log(versions);
})();

Install a browser

This feature installs a specified version of a browser. In this example, it installs Firefox version 89.0.

const { installBrowser } = require('@puppeteer/browsers');

(async () => {
  await installBrowser('firefox', '89.0');
})();

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@puppeteer/browsers

Manage and launch browsers/drivers from a CLI or programmatically.

CLI

Use npx to run the CLI:

npx @puppeteer/browsers --help

CLI help will provide all documentation you need to use the CLI.

npx @puppeteer/browsers --help # help for all commands
npx @puppeteer/browsers install --help # help for the install command
npx @puppeteer/browsers launch --help # help for the launch command

Known limitations

We support installing and running Firefox, Chrome and Chromium. The latest, beta, dev, canary, stable keywords are only supported for the install command. For the launch command you need to specify an exact build ID. The build ID is provided by the install command (see npx @puppeteer/browsers install --help for the format).
Launching the system browsers is only possible for Chrome/Chromium.

API

The programmatic API allows installing and launching browsers from your code. See the test folder for examples on how to use the install, canInstall, launch, computeExecutablePath, computeSystemExecutablePath and other methods.

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Package last updated on 25 May 2023

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