tom-konda / Puppeteer-IE

Headless Internet Explorer NodeJS API inspired by Puppeteer

Puppeteer-IE

Headless Internet Explorer NodeJS API inspired by Puppeteer.

[ Notice ] Microsoft Edge isn't supported by this package as it utilizes ActiveX, whereas Edge uses the WebDriver protocol & DevTools Protocol for automation. So you can control it by Selenium or Edge diagnostics adapter.

Installation

npm install puppeteer-ie

[ Notice ] If you get some error at installing, try to execute the command below:

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

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Usage

Only change the Package Name, and then do as Puppeteer does.

[ Recommendation ] Use DayDream to record operation scripts in Google Chrome.

API document accesses from https://techquery.github.io/Puppeteer-IE/ or npm run help.

Known issue

1. Loading pages of IE will be blocked if a Web server running in the same NodeJS process

2. Loading pages from localhost will lost the window object in NodeJS process

For the above reasons, I recommend using KoApache to host your Web pages for testing or other things.

Development

Contributor guide

Acknowledgement

1. Puppeteer

2. Node-ActiveX

3. HTML2Canvas