Puppeteer Stealth Web Scraper

---
name: "Puppeteer Stealth Web Scraper"
slug: "puppeteer-stealth-web-scraper"
description: "Uses puppeteer-extra with stealth plugin to bypass bot detection for web scraping. Integrates with Cheerio for HTML parsing, rotating residential proxies via Bright Data API, and p-queue for concurrency control."
github_stars: 94115
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer"
author: "Puppeteer"
category: "Research & Scraping"
framework: "Cursor"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "puppeteer/puppeteer"
  github_stars: 94115
  npm_package: "puppeteer"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 40191842
---

# Puppeteer Stealth Web Scraper

Uses puppeteer-extra with stealth plugin to bypass bot detection for web scraping. Integrates with Cheerio for HTML parsing, rotating residential proxies via Bright Data API, and p-queue for concurrency control.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- npm i puppeteer # Downloads compatible Chrome during installation.
- npm i puppeteer-core # Alternatively, install as a library, without downloading Chrome.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- bash npm2yarn
- ## MCP
- a Puppeteer-based MCP server for browser automation and debugging.

- Source: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://pptr.dev/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/puppeteer-stealth-web-scraper/)