Package
puppeteer-core
A high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 15.1m
- +80% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 6
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 1 day ago
- v25.12.0
- GitHub stars
- 95.6k
- 9.6k forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 243 / 20
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 789
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
15,077,233 downloads last week, 75,797,451 in the last month. The 12-month change of +80% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 51348 in total
- Latest version
- 25.12.0, 23 Sept 20261 day ago
- First published
- 10 Aug 2018
- Last push to GitHub
- 24 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 243
- Open pull requests
- 20
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 789
- Dependents on npm
- 1,972
Major versions
- v25 first release 25.0.2, 15 May 2026
- v24 first release 24.0.0, 10 Jan 2025
- v23 first release 23.0.0, 7 Aug 2024
- v22 first release 22.0.0, 5 Feb 2024
- v21 first release 21.0.0, 2 Aug 2023
- v20 first release 20.0.0, 2 May 2023
- v19 first release 19.0.0, 14 Oct 2022
- v18 first release 18.0.0, 19 Sept 2022
- v17 first release 17.0.0, 29 Aug 2022
- v16 first release 16.0.0, 3 Aug 2022
- v15 first release 15.0.0, 23 Jun 2022
- v14 first release 14.0.0, 9 May 2022
- v13 first release 13.0.0, 10 Dec 2021
- v12 first release 12.0.0, 27 Nov 2021
- v11 first release 11.0.0, 3 Nov 2021
- v10 first release 10.0.0, 31 May 2021
- v9 first release 9.0.0, 21 Apr 2021
- v8 first release 8.0.0, 26 Feb 2021
- v7 first release 7.0.0, 3 Feb 2021
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 2 Feb 2021
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 2 Jul 2020
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 15 Jun 2020
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 16 Apr 2020
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 24 Oct 2019
- v1 first release 1.7.0, 10 Aug 2018
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 25.12.0 | 23 Sept 2026 |
| 25.11.0 | 14 Sept 2026 |
| 25.10.0 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| 25.9.0 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| 25.8.0 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| 25.7.0 | 13 Aug 2026 |
| 25.6.0 | 11 Aug 2026 |
| 25.5.0 | 4 Aug 2026 |
| 25.4.0 | 27 Jul 2026 |
| 25.3.0 | 1 Jul 2026 |
| 25.2.1 | 24 Jun 2026 |
| 25.2.0 | 22 Jun 2026 |
| 25.1.0 | 26 May 2026 |
| 25.0.4 | 18 May 2026 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=22.12.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 5.7 MB
- Dependencies (6)
wschromium-bididevtools-protocol@puppeteer/browserstyped-query-selectorwebdriver-bidi-protocol
npm install puppeteer-coreCDN
jsDelivr: 5.2m requests in 30 days
- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/puppeteer-core@25.12.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/puppeteer-core@25.12.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/puppeteer-core@25.12.0
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| puppeteer-extra-plugin-user-preferences | 833.1k | - | 3 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| puppeteer-extra-plugin-user-data-dir | 833.4k | - | 3 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth | 834.8k | - | 3 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| @crawlee/core | 174.5k | - | 1 month ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| playwright-extra | 874.6k | - | 3 years ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
Indexability: Indexed.