Puppeteer's release frequency shows a significant increase over time. Initially, releases were sparse. From 2017 onwards, releases became more regular, peaking in 2022 and 2023. The frequency has remained high in 2024 and 2025, but with some signs of slight decrease. Overall, this indicates active development and maintenance of the Puppeteer library.
Puppeteer is a Node.js library providing a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium. It's perfect for web scraping, automated testing, generating PDFs, and capturing screenshots of websites. Devs can use it to automate interactions with web pages, navigate to URLs, simulate user input, and extract data, all programmatically. Reliable and actively maintained, Puppeteer simplifies web automation tasks significantly.
Puppeteer downloads show a general upward trend from March 2024 to August 2025, increasing from 12.9 million to 23.5 million. There's a noticeable surge in downloads starting in early 2025. September 2025's data is incomplete, reflecting significantly lower downloads.
