Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Puppet-master, simple and scalable (programmatic) website interaction
Did you ever need to interact with a website, not only using plain http but a real browser? Have you ever felt the pain using selenium or struggled reading data from a rendered SPA website? We did, and we suffered. During development of a SaaS platform we built puppet-master, a scalable and flexible way of interacting with websites using well known and plain EcmaScript 6, wrapped in a simple API and thus usable by most programming languages. You can find the docs at https://docs.puppet-master.io/ and any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Puppet-master, simple and scalable (programmatic) website interaction launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping - emadehsan/thal
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn how to scrape webpages using Puppeteer and Serverless Functions built with OpenFaaS.
2020 · openfaas.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…
2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →
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Owl Browser▲145I've been working on browser automation infrastructure for a while and kept hitting the same ceiling: Playwright and Puppeteer are great for scripting but fall apart when you need stealth at scale. Cloud-based solutions like Browserbase work but you're sending all your data to a third party and can't control the environment. So we built Owl Browser, a self-hosted Chromium-based engine that runs in a single Docker container. The core technical problem we tried to solve was fingerprint consistency. Most browser automation tools either ignore fingerprinting entirely or apply surface-level…
Jan 2026 · owlbrowser.net · its alternatives →
- 7PS
2021 · pptrconsole.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Nick and this is my fun side project. Please lay it on me. HN can think of Tips.io as a cracked out Tailwind Playground that has page management and amazing AI integration. There are a few core ideas: 1) The HTML is the CMS There are no fields or restrictions. Just hover, click, and start tweaking any HTML. Also, certain elements you click will have special easy edit abilities: - auto creates an uploader, stock photo picker (or HTML) - auto creates an uploader, stock video picker (or HTML) - auto creates a big icon picker (or HTML) - auto creates a WYSIWYG Editor (or HTML)…
2024 · tips.io · its alternatives →
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browserless.io▲143The full-code, no-ops tool for browser automation
2023 · browserless.io · its alternatives →
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Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions - alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Control the web with prompts (open source)
2025 · browser-use.com · its alternatives →
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BrowserBird▲99Low code browser automation builder and serverless puppeteer
2021 · browserbird.com · its alternatives →
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Run automated Puppeteer tests in the cloud
2023 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →
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Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headf
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Easy workflow automation for cloud infrastructure
2021 · puppet.com · its alternatives →
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Simplex is an SDK that provides low-level functions you can use to create reliable web automations using code and natural language. Here's a quick video to show you how it works: https://www.loom.com/share/8d27d0f9e0f34c77a81b0ac770151c12 A couple weeks ago, we needed a way to automatically find 3D assets from the internet for one of our work contracts. We didn’t need an AI to choose all the steps for us autonomously — we knew generally what the flow to find items should be and just needed some intelligence to handle different webpage formats. Playwright couldn’t easily…
2025 · simplex.sh · its alternatives →
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This is a browser front-end (ultra simple) for Chrome, built using puppeteer. I like it because it provides a usable single browser tab (that conveniently crashes on certificate errors (thanks to puppeteers default flags which I haven't altered here)), without using any JS scripting on the client side. There's some clever hacks to get that to work, including stylesheet media queries (to zero in on the correct viewport dimensions), and MJPEG, a crazy HTTP keep-alive way to stream JPEG frames of a video, favored by old-style CCTV/security/web cameras allegedly. I noticed it went from…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I made Browser-Use, an open-source tool that lets (all Langchain supported) LLMs execute tasks directly in the browser just with function calling. It allows you to build agents that interact with web elements using natural language prompts. We created a layer that simplifies website interaction for LLMs by extracting xPaths and interactive elements like buttons and input fields (and other fancy things). This enables you to design custom web automation and scraping functions without manual inspection through DevTools. Hasn't this been done a lot of times? Good question, as a general…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An agnostic, reactive & minimalist (3kb) JavaScript UI library with direct access to native DOM.
2021 · caldom.org · its alternatives →
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Make your apps faster, parallelize away heavy DOM operations
2024 · pdom.dev · its alternatives →
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:tophat: A single tab web browser built with puppeteer. Also, no client-side JS. Viewport is streamed with MJPEG. For realz. - DO-SAY-GO/puppetromium
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:tophat: A single tab web browser built with puppeteer. Also, no client-side JS. Viewport is streamed with MJPEG. For realz. - DO-SAY-GO/puppetromium
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Easily generate high quality PDF documents from HTML or templates. Fast, scalable and privacy focused PDF generation API.
2020 · docamatic.com · its alternatives →
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This is a Node.js script that leverages Puppeteer with extra settings to create a web crawler that avoids detection. This tool allows you to scrape websites while minimizing the risk of being blocked or identified as a bot.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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