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Puppeteer and Playwright can be particularly useful when scraping data accessible only behind a login wall. This article shows a practical example of such a case. Scraping expenses on Amazon For our...
Giovanni RagoPuppeteer and Playwright can be used to create PDFs from webpages. This opens up interesting automation scenarios for tasks such as archiving, generating invoices, writing manuals, books and more. Th...
Giovanni RagoThe HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is stateless, but cookies allow it to keep context consistent over the course of a session. In other words, by having our browser automatically exchange small am...
Giovanni RagoThe need for fast and responsive applications has never been greater because of the move from desktop to mobile. Still, web applications have been increasing in complexity and size, with rising load t...
Giovanni RagoWith Puppeteer and Playwright, writing scripts by hand is not the only option. Since browser automation first became possible, there have always been tools trying to simplify script creation. Such ins...
Hannes LenkeWebsites might expose files for users to download and then access from their local machine. Common cases are downloading tickets, receipts and itineraries. Steps This example runs against our test w...
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