# pyppeteer/pyppeteer

Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)

Repository: https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pyppeteer
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: automation, puppeteer, chromium
Last push: 2024-06-29T14:49:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2407, "days_push": 795, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3942, forks 345 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:30.221984+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping, http-client, testing, workflow-automation
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, crawlers
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: headless-browser, puppeteer-port, chrome-automation, asyncio, selenium-alternative, unmaintained, automation

## Member repositories
- pyppeteer/pyppeteer (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.221984+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:24:37.072693+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:30.221984+00:00, sha 1594ebaf769b)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pyppeteer/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:18:17.333781+00:00, sha 0e6930d1eec7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.