Puppeteer
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ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Puppeteer is what Google built when they wanted to automate Chrome without Selenium's drama. It gives you a puppet version of Chrome that you control with Node.js — perfect for screenshots, generating PDFs, or scraping sites that require JavaScript rendering. Playwright is its grown-up sibling.
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