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[a real scottish]

Hi all, I have a discussion.

I have been using Python 3 with Selenium mostly when automating stuff but Sele is so fucking heavy.

Recently I saw a lot of people using/learning NodeJS which has good support for Puppeteer. I also used pyppeteer (puppeter for python

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) a while ago and found it clunky, what do you think?

Is puppeteer better than Selenium? Is it worth changing the language to Node?

 

[m1st]

Hi all, I have a discussion.

I have been using Python 3 with Selenium mostly when automating stuff but Sele is so fucking heavy.

Recently I saw a lot of people using/learning NodeJS which has good support for Puppeteer. I also used pyppeteer (puppeter for python

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) a while ago and found it clunky, what do you think?

Is puppeteer better than Selenium? Is it worth changing the language to Node?

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Selenium not good by speed, puppeter looks better.
and

Puppeteer is a Node.js package that provides a high-level application programming interface to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. Selenium is a full suite of tools that supports the development and execution of tests for a wide variety of browsers, languages, and operating environments.

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[Snorltec]

Depends on your needs, Selenium offers more variety, but Puppeteer is faster
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