🕸️Puppeteer is a powerful tool for web scraping and much more. It acts as a headless Chrome browser, providing access to the DOM, event firing, JavaScript parsing, and screenshot/PDF creation.
📚Web scraping is useful when data you need is not available via APIs. By scraping websites, you can fetch data programmatically, even if an API is not provided.
💻With Puppeteer, you can scrape websites and extract specific data. In this example, we scrape all the courses from a homepage, extracting the title, udemy link, course level, and promo code for each course.
📦Puppeteer provides powerful features like screenshots and PDF creation. You can automate browser actions, capture screenshots, and generate PDFs of websites using Puppeteer.
🔗Scraping data requires understanding the structure of the website and the desired data. By analyzing the HTML structure, you can identify the elements to target for scraping, such as titles, links, and specific data fields.