About Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a Google-maintained open-source Node.js library that provides a high-level API for controlling Chromium and Firefox browsers programmatically. It is widely used for automated UI testing, web scraping of JavaScript-rendered pages, screenshot and PDF generation, and network request interception. Starting from version 23, it added support for Firefox via the WebDriver BiDi protocol. Puppeteer is a library, not a managed service, so teams must provision their own infrastructure for scheduled or parallel execution.
AI Agent Use Cases
- Headless and headful Chrome and Firefox browser control
- Web scraping of JavaScript-rendered dynamic pages
- Automated screenshot and PDF generation
- Network request interception and mocking
- Form submission and UI interaction simulation
- WebDriver BiDi protocol support for cross-browser automation (v23+)
Available Actions
These are the specific actions that AI agents can perform with this tool