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Classes

Class

Description

Accessibility

The Accessibility class provides methods for inspecting the browser's accessibility tree. The accessibility tree is used by assistive technology such as screen readers or switches.

Browser

Browser represents a browser instance that is either:

Browser emits various events which are documented in the BrowserEvent enum.

BrowserContext

BrowserContext represents individual user contexts within a browser.

When a browser is launched, it has a single browser context by default. Others can be created using Browser.createBrowserContext(). Each context has isolated storage (cookies/localStorage/etc.)

BrowserContext emits various events which are documented in the BrowserContextEvent enum.

If a page opens another page, e.g. using window.open, the popup will belong to the parent page's browser context.

CDPSession

The CDPSession instances are used to talk raw Chrome Devtools Protocol.

Connection

ConsoleMessage

ConsoleMessage objects are dispatched by page via the 'console' event.

Coverage

The Coverage class provides methods to gather information about parts of JavaScript and CSS that were used by the page.

CSSCoverage

DeviceRequestPrompt

Device request prompts let you respond to the page requesting for a device through an API like WebBluetooth.

DeviceRequestPromptDevice

Device in a request prompt.

Dialog

Dialog instances are dispatched by the Page via the dialog event.

ElementHandle

ElementHandle represents an in-page DOM element.

EventEmitter

The EventEmitter class that many Puppeteer classes extend.

FileChooser

File choosers let you react to the page requesting for a file.

Frame

Represents a DOM frame.

To understand frames, you can think of frames as <iframe> elements. Just like iframes, frames can be nested, and when JavaScript is executed in a frame, the JavaScript does not effect frames inside the ambient frame the JavaScript executes in.

HTTPRequest

Represents an HTTP request sent by a page.

HTTPResponse

The HTTPResponse class represents responses which are received by the Page class.

JSCoverage

JSHandle

Represents a reference to a JavaScript object. Instances can be created using Page.evaluateHandle().

Handles prevent the referenced JavaScript object from being garbage-collected unless the handle is purposely disposed. JSHandles are auto-disposed when their associated frame is navigated away or the parent context gets destroyed.

Handles can be used as arguments for any evaluation function such as Page.$eval(), Page.evaluate(), and Page.evaluateHandle(). They are resolved to their referenced object.

Keyboard

Keyboard provides an api for managing a virtual keyboard. The high level api is Keyboard.type(), which takes raw characters and generates proper keydown, keypress/input, and keyup events on your page.

Locator

Locators describe a strategy of locating objects and performing an action on them. If the action fails because the object is not ready for the action, the whole operation is retried. Various preconditions for a successful action are checked automatically.

Mouse

The Mouse class operates in main-frame CSS pixels relative to the top-left corner of the viewport.

Page

Page provides methods to interact with a single tab or extension background page in the browser.

note

One Browser instance might have multiple Page instances.

ProductLauncher

Describes a launcher - a class that is able to create and launch a browser instance.

ProtocolError

ProtocolError is emitted whenever there is an error from the protocol.

Puppeteer

The main Puppeteer class.

IMPORTANT: if you are using Puppeteer in a Node environment, you will get an instance of PuppeteerNode when you import or require puppeteer. That class extends Puppeteer, so has all the methods documented below as well as all that are defined on PuppeteerNode.

PuppeteerError

The base class for all Puppeteer-specific errors

PuppeteerNode

Extends the main Puppeteer class with Node specific behaviour for fetching and downloading browsers.

If you're using Puppeteer in a Node environment, this is the class you'll get when you run require('puppeteer') (or the equivalent ES import).

ScreenRecorder

SecurityDetails

The SecurityDetails class represents the security details of a response that was received over a secure connection.

Target

Target represents a CDP target. In CDP a target is something that can be debugged such a frame, a page or a worker.

TimeoutError

TimeoutError is emitted whenever certain operations are terminated due to timeout.

Touchscreen

The Touchscreen class exposes touchscreen events.

Tracing

The Tracing class exposes the tracing audit interface.

UnsupportedOperation

Puppeteer will throw this error if a method is not supported by the currently used protocol

WebWorker

This class represents a WebWorker.

Enumerations

Enumeration

Description

BrowserContextEvent

BrowserEvent

All the events a browser instance may emit.

InterceptResolutionAction

LocatorEvent

All the events that a locator instance may emit.

PageEvent

All the events that a page instance may emit.

TargetType

Functions

Function

Description

clearCustomQueryHandlers()

connect(options)

customQueryHandlerNames()

defaultArgs(options)

executablePath(channel)

launch(options)

registerCustomQueryHandler(name, handler)

trimCache()

unregisterCustomQueryHandler(name)

Interfaces

Interface

Description

ActionOptions

AutofillData

BoundingBox

BoxModel

BrowserConnectOptions

Generic browser options that can be passed when launching any browser or when connecting to an existing browser instance.

BrowserContextEvents

BrowserContextOptions

BrowserEvents

BrowserLaunchArgumentOptions

Launcher options that only apply to Chrome.

CDPSessionEvents

ClickOptions

CommandOptions

CommonEventEmitter

Configuration

Defines options to configure Puppeteer's behavior during installation and runtime.

See individual properties for more information.

ConnectionTransport

ConnectOptions

ConsoleMessageLocation

ContinueRequestOverrides

Cookie

Represents a cookie object.

CookieParam

Cookie parameter object

CoverageEntry

The CoverageEntry class represents one entry of the coverage report.

Credentials

CSSCoverageOptions

Set of configurable options for CSS coverage.

CustomQueryHandler

DebugInfo

DeleteCookiesRequest

Device

ElementScreenshotOptions

FrameAddScriptTagOptions

FrameAddStyleTagOptions

FrameEvents

FrameWaitForFunctionOptions

GeolocationOptions

GoToOptions

InterceptResolutionState

InternalNetworkConditions

JSCoverageEntry

The CoverageEntry class for JavaScript

JSCoverageOptions

Set of configurable options for JS coverage.

KeyboardTypeOptions

KeyDownOptions

LaunchOptions

Generic launch options that can be passed when launching any browser.

LocatorEvents

LocatorOptions

LocatorScrollOptions

MediaFeature

Metrics

MouseClickOptions

MouseMoveOptions

MouseOptions

MouseWheelOptions

Moveable

NetworkConditions

NewDocumentScriptEvaluation

Offset

PageEvents

Denotes the objects received by callback functions for page events.

See PageEvent for more detail on the events and when they are emitted.

PDFMargin

PDFOptions

Valid options to configure PDF generation via Page.pdf().

Point

PuppeteerLaunchOptions

RemoteAddress

ResponseForRequest

Required response data to fulfill a request with.

ScreencastOptions

ScreenshotClip

ScreenshotOptions

SerializedAXNode

Represents a Node and the properties of it that are relevant to Accessibility.

SnapshotOptions

TracingOptions

Viewport

WaitForNetworkIdleOptions

WaitForOptions

WaitForSelectorOptions

WaitForTargetOptions

WaitTimeoutOptions

Namespaces

Namespace

Description

CDPSessionEvent

Events that the CDPSession class emits.

Variables

Variable

Description

DEFAULT_INTERCEPT_RESOLUTION_PRIORITY

The default cooperative request interception resolution priority

KnownDevices

A list of devices to be used with Page.emulate().

MouseButton

Enum of valid mouse buttons.

PredefinedNetworkConditions

A list of network conditions to be used with Page.emulateNetworkConditions().

puppeteer

Type Aliases

Type Alias

Description

ActionResult

Awaitable

AwaitableIterable

AwaitablePredicate

AwaitedLocator

CDPEvents

ChromeReleaseChannel

ConsoleMessageType

The supported types for console messages.

CookiePriority

Represents the cookie's 'Priority' status: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-cookie-priority-00

CookieSameSite

Represents the cookie's 'SameSite' status: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-first-party-cookies

CookieSourceScheme

Represents the source scheme of the origin that originally set the cookie. A value of "Unset" allows protocol clients to emulate legacy cookie scope for the scheme. This is a temporary ability and it will be removed in the future.

ElementFor

ErrorCode

EvaluateFunc

EvaluateFuncWith

EventsWithWildcard

EventType

ExperimentsConfiguration

Defines experiment options for Puppeteer.

See individual properties for more information.

FlattenHandle

HandleFor

HandleOr

Handler

InnerParams

KeyInput

All the valid keys that can be passed to functions that take user input, such as keyboard.press

KeyPressOptions

LocatorClickOptions

LowerCasePaperFormat

Mapper

MouseButton

NodeFor

PaperFormat

All the valid paper format types when printing a PDF.

Permission

Predicate

Product

Supported products.

ProtocolLifeCycleEvent

ProtocolType

PuppeteerLifeCycleEvent

PuppeteerNodeLaunchOptions

Utility type exposed to enable users to define options that can be passed to puppeteer.launch without having to list the set of all types.

Quad

ResourceType

Resource types for HTTPRequests as perceived by the rendering engine.

TargetFilterCallback

VisibilityOption