Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Puppeteer API
Convert your website into an API
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Puppeteer API launched in 2020; 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 →
- 2PS
2021 · pptrconsole.com · its alternatives →
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Run automated Puppeteer tests in the cloud
2023 · testingbot.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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Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)free tier, from $19/mo▲332Web scraping made simple — extract data with our free Chrome extension and powerful cloud platform. Turn websites into structured data at scale, via dashboard or API.
2019 · simplescraper.io · 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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Simple Scraper▲556Turn any website into an API in just a few seconds.
2019 · simplescraper.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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Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.
2017 · apify.com · its alternatives →
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Anything API▲656Hey HN! We built Notte, a browser infrastructure and agents platform. Many of our users automate UI workflows or extract data from sites that don’t have APIs. In practice, we noticed that once an agent understands how a site works, parts of the task can often run without a browser by interacting with the same network requests the site uses. So we built Anything API: describe a browser task, and our agent explores the site, builds a function, tests it against your description, and deploys a callable REST endpoint. No infra to manage. How the build works: - Describe the task (best results come…
Mar 2026 · anything.notte.cc · 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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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 →
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Turn any website into a reliable API with 1 prompt
Dec 2025 · skills.browser-use.com · 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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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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Build an API on top of any existing website or find an API for a site that you need
2017 · wrapapi.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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Copycat▲120Extension to test web apps without writing a line of code
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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The first AI agent that can operate your browser.
2023 · hyperwriteai.com · its alternatives →
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Build bots using Node.js, in your browser!
2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We built a browser-based agent that runs inside an authenticated web app, watches how the app calls its own APIs, and automatically turns those into agent tools. You can think of it as an auto-generated MCP server that self-updates as the host app changes. The result is a skilled AI assistant that actually integrates deeply with any product (not just chat and RAG) with minimal effort. Check out these short demos below that show the agent in software you're probably familiar with: - Jira: https://demo.frigade.com/hn?skill=jira - Spotify:…
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
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Automatically generate Playwright & Puppeteer scripts
2022 · hyperdx.io · its alternatives →
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- Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping alternatives
- Puppeteer scripts in the Browser, DevTools on remote pages alternatives
- Puppeteer Cloud Testing alternatives
- Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js alternatives
- Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono) alternatives
- Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer alternatives
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →