On: Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping i...

[smashah]

I've been using puppeteer as it's got a very established ecosystem. There are also puppeteer plugins that make it very powerful against captchas/detection/etc.

The worst thing about Puppeteer is chrome and it's bad memory management so I'm going to give playwright a spin soon.

[nathancahill → smashah]

It's been a while, but last time I used it Puppeteer had a headless Firefox backend?

[fourfour3 → nathancahill]

Puppeteer can do both Chrome & Firefox, you're right. I use both for a scraping project I do.

[mccorrinall → nathancahill]

You might be mistaking playwright with puppeteer