Puppeteer vs Selenium

Puppeteer vs Selenium: licensing, GitHub activity, and what each is actually for. Neutral comparison, no paid rankings.

Puppeteer: Open source. 95,683 GitHub stars. Google's official headless Chrome Node.js API for browser automation. Full Chrome DevTools Protocol access for advanced scenarios.

Selenium: Open source. 34,541 GitHub stars. Browser automation framework that supports multiple browsers and programming languages.