pyppeteer/pyppeteer
Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2407
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 795
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3942 stars · 345 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Pyppeteer is an unofficial Python port of Puppeteer for automating headless Chrome/Chromium browsers via asyncio. It supports page navigation, screenshots, JavaScript evaluation, and other browser automation tasks from Python code.
Use cases
- scrape javascript-rendered websites with python
- take screenshots of web pages programmatically
- automate a headless chrome browser in python
- run javascript on a page and extract results
- test web apps with a headless browser
- generate pdfs from web pages
When to choose
- you need a puppeteer-like API in Python and cannot use playwright
- you have legacy code already built on pyppeteer
When to avoid
- starting a new project - the repo is explicitly unmaintained; use playwright-python instead
- you need up-to-date Chromium support or bug fixes
- you need long-term stability or active community support
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
web-scraping http-client testing workflow-automation web-development developer-tools crawlers python cross-platform cli headless-browser puppeteer-port chrome-automation asyncio selenium-alternative unmaintained automation
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1594ebaf769b
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pyppeteer/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0e6930d1eec7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| pyppeteer/pyppeteer | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="pyppeteer/pyppeteer")
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