---
name: Puppeteer
domain: pptr.dev
kind: product
relation: substitute
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.67
---

# Puppeteer

A JavaScript library providing a high-level API to control Chrome or Firefox for browser automation, used by developers for testing, scraping, and UI automation.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → substitute to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** A buyer evaluating Vercel for building/deploying web apps could instead use Puppeteer for in-house browser automation and scraping tasks, making Vercel's AI cloud platform unnecessary for those specific workflows.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Puppeteer is a JavaScript library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Firefox over the DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi

> Puppeteer runs in the headless (no visible UI) by default

**Edges:**

- competitor [[github-com]]
- discusses [[community-latenode-com]]
- competitor [[screenshotone-com]]
- competitor [[urlbox-com]]
- competitor [[appsignal-com]]
- competitor [[apify-com]]
- competitor [[pipedream-com]]
