Scraping and browser automation

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• fdirThe fastest directory crawler & globbing alternative to glob, fast-glob, & tiny-glob. Crawls 1m files in < 1s
• playwright-coreA high-level API to automate web browsers
• jsdomA JavaScript implementation of many web standards
• playwrightA high-level API to automate web browsers
• environmentCheck which JavaScript environment your code is running in at runtime: browser, Node.js, Bun, etc
• cheerioThe fast, flexible & elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.
• puppeteer-coreA high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol
• happy-domHappy DOM is a JavaScript implementation of a web browser without its graphical user interface. It includes many web standards from WHATWG DOM and HTML.
• query-selector-shadow-domuse querySelector syntax to search for nodes inside of (nested) shadow roots
• webdriver-bidi-protocolThis repository contains TypeScript types conforming to the [WebDriver BiDi](https://w3c.github.io/webdriver-bidi/) specification. It also supports WebDriver BiDi extension modules defined in other specifications:
• puppeteerA high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol
• linkedomA triple-linked lists based DOM implementation
• robots-parserA specification compliant robots.txt parser with wildcard (*) matching support.
• @appium/typesVarious type declarations used across Appium
• @appium/supportSupport libs used across Appium packages
• @appium/schemaAppium Configuration Schema
• @wdio/utilsA WDIO helper utility to provide several utility functions used across the project.
• selenium-webdriverThe official WebDriver JavaScript bindings from the Selenium project
• webdriverA Node.js bindings implementation for the W3C WebDriver and Mobile JSONWire Protocol
• webdriverioNext-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
• spawndSpawn a dependent child process.
• @appium/loggerA Universal Logger For The Appium Ecosystem
• @sparticuz/chromiumChromium Binary for Serverless Platforms
• @happy-dom/global-registratorUse Happy DOM globally in a Node.js environment for testing.
• agent-browserBrowser automation CLI for AI agents
• @appium/tsconfigShared TypeScript Config for Appium
• @browserbasehq/stagehandBrowserbase's SDK for building browser agents
• @appium/base-driverBase driver class for Appium drivers
• chrome-devtools-mcpMCP server for Chrome DevTools
• @appium/docutilsDocumentation generation utilities for Appium and related projects
• appiumAutomation for Apps.
• allure-playwrightAllure Playwright integration
• @mendable/firecrawl-jsJavaScript SDK for the Firecrawl API: web scraping, crawling, web search, and scientific literature search over a research paper index of PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv and arXiv abstracts
• playwright-extraTeach playwright new tricks through plugins.
• @appium/base-pluginThe base plugin used to create Appium plugins
• puppeteer-extra-pluginBase class for puppeteer-extra plugins.
• puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealthStealth mode: Applies various techniques to make detection of headless puppeteer harder.
• puppeteer-extra-plugin-user-data-dirCustom user data directory for puppeteer.
• puppeteer-extra-plugin-user-preferencesLaunch puppeteer with arbitrary user preferences.
• chromedriverChromeDriver for Selenium
• webdriver-managerA selenium server and browser driver manager for your end to end tests.
• protractorWebdriver E2E test wrapper for Angular.
• appium-webdriveragentPackage bundling WebDriverAgent
• webdriver-js-extenderA plugin which adds additional commands to selenium's javascript implementation of the webdriver client side API
• blocking-proxyWebDriver Proxy for testing rich clients. It block certain calls until Angular is done updating the page under test.
• @appium/strongboxPersistent storage for Appium extensions
• jasminewd2WebDriverJS adapter for Jasmine2.
• firecrawlJavaScript SDK for the Firecrawl API: web scraping, crawling, web search, and scientific literature search over a research paper index of PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv and arXiv abstracts
• browserstack-localNodejs bindings for BrowserStack Local
• jsdom-globalEnable DOM in Node.js

• happy-dom vs jsdom
• selenium-webdriver vs wd
• @appium/types vs selenium-webdriver
• @appium/types vs wd
• cheerio vs @metascraper/helpers
• codeceptjs vs playwright-bdd
• codeceptjs vs nightwatch