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The article examines how you can take screenshots of any URL with Javascript and TypeScript (Node.js) by using Selenium, Puppeteer alternatives, Playwright, or screenshot API as a service.
The article examines how you can take screenshots of any URL with Java by using Selenium, Puppeteer alternatives, Playwright, or screenshot API as a service.
The article examines how you can take screenshots of any URL with Go (a.k.a. Golang) by using Selenium, Puppeteer alternatives, Playwright, or screenshot API as a service.
Puppeteer allows changing the time zone on a per-page basis. In automation testing, you can use it to test how the website behaves for different time zones. Or you can use it for scrapping to imitate the user from the expected time zone by the site.
Puppeteer allows blocking any outgoing requests while loading the page. Whether you want to block ads, tracking scripts, or different types of resources, it is relatively easy to do with Puppeteer.
Puppeteer allows you to automate everything you can do in the browser manually and even more. You can take screenshots of the entire page and the specific elements.
It is easy to use proxy globally for the puppeteer instance, but there is a trick to use proxy on a per-page basis.
Sharing working Puppeteer examples based on the experience of building one the best screenshot APIs.
Exhaustive documentation, ready SDKs, no-code tools, and other automation to help you render website screenshots and outsource all the boring work related to that to us.