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browserless

v10.12.1

Published

The headless Chrome/Chromium driver on top of Puppeteer. Take screenshots, generate PDFs, extract text and HTML with a production-ready API.

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Maintainers

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Keywords

automationbrowserbrowserlesschromechromiumheadlesshtmljavascriptnodejspdfpuppeteerscreenshottextweb-scraping

Readme

Install

Using npm:

npm install browserless puppeteer --save

About

This is the core package of the browserless monorepo. It provides a high-level, performance-oriented API for headless Chrome/Chromium automation built on top of Puppeteer.

What this package does

The browserless package serves as the main entry point and orchestrator for the entire browserless ecosystem. It handles:

  • Browser process management: Spawns and manages headless Chrome/Chromium processes with optimized flags for performance and stability. Includes automatic respawning when the browser disconnects.

  • Browser context isolation: Creates isolated browser contexts (similar to browser tabs) with separate cookies and cache, enabling concurrent operations without cross-contamination.

  • Built-in methods: Provides ready-to-use methods for common tasks:

    • html(url) – Serialize page content to HTML
    • text(url) – Extract plain text from a page
    • pdf(url) – Generate PDF documents
    • screenshot(url) – Capture screenshots with device emulation and overlay support

  • Reliability features: Built-in retry logic, timeout handling, and graceful error recovery for production environments.

How it fits in the monorepo

This package integrates and re-exports functionality from other @browserless/* packages:

| Dependency | Purpose | |------------|---------| | @browserless/goto | Page navigation with smart waiting strategies, ad blocking, and evasion techniques | | @browserless/screenshot | Screenshot capture with overlays, device emulation, and code highlighting | | @browserless/pdf | PDF generation with customizable margins and scaling | | @browserless/errors | Standardized error handling and timeout errors |

License

browserless © Microlink, released under the MIT License. Authored and maintained by Microlink with help from contributors.

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