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Puppeteer extra

💯 Teach puppeteer new tricks through plugins.

From berstend·Updated June 13, 2026·View on GitHub·

This is the monorepo for [`puppeteer-extra`](./packages/puppeteer-extra), a modular plugin framework for [`puppeteer`](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer). :-) The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2018. It has gained significant community traction with 7,354 stars and 780 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: automation, chrome, headless-browser, headless-chrome, lerna.

puppeteer-extra Downloads

This is the monorepo for puppeteer-extra, a modular plugin framework for puppeteer. :-)

🌟 For the main documentation, please head over to the puppeteer-extra package.

We've also recently introduced support for Playwright, if you're interested in that head over to playwright-extra.

Monorepo

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Contributing

PRs and new plugins are welcome! The plugin API for puppeteer-extra is clean and fun to use. Have a look the PuppeteerExtraPlugin base class documentation to get going and check out the existing plugins (minimal example is the anonymize-ua plugin) for reference.

We use a monorepo powered by Lerna (and yarn workspaces), ava for testing, the standard style for linting and JSDoc heavily to auto-generate markdown documentation based on code. :-)

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Lerna

This monorepo is powered by Lerna and yarn workspaces.

Initial setup

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# Install deps yarn # Bootstrap the packages in the current Lerna repo. # Installs all of their dependencies and links any cross-dependencies. yarn bootstrap # Build all TypeScript sources yarn build

Development flow

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# Install debug in all packages yarn lerna add debug # Install fs-extra to puppeteer-extra-plugin-user-data-dir yarn lerna add fs-extra --scope=puppeteer-extra-plugin-user-data-dir # Remove dependency # https://github.com/lerna/lerna/issues/833 yarn lerna exec --concurrency 1 'yarn remove fs-extra; echo 0' # Run test in all packages yarn test # Update JSDoc based documentation in markdown files yarn docs # Upgrade project wide deps like puppeteer # (We keep the devDependency version blurry) rm -rf node_modules rm -rf yarn.lock yarn yarn lerna bootstrap # Update deps within packages (interactive) yarn lernaupdate # If in doubt :-( yarn lerna exec "rm -f yarn.lock; rm -rf node_modules; echo 0" rm -f yarn.lock && rm -rf node_modules && yarn cache clean # Run tests of specific package cd packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth yarn test # Run tests of specific stealth evasion cd packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth yarn ava -v ./evasions/user-agent-override/index.test.js # Test a local monorepo package in an outside folder as it would've been installed from the registry # Change PACKAGE_DIR to the path of this monorepo and PACKAGE to the package you wish to install PACKAGE=puppeteer-extra PACKAGE_DIR=/Users/foo/puppeteer-extra/packages && yarn remove $(echo $PACKAGE); true && rm -f $(pwd)/$(echo $PACKAGE)-latest.tgz && yarn --cwd $(echo $PACKAGE_DIR)/$(echo $PACKAGE) pack --filename $(pwd)/$(echo $PACKAGE)-latest.tgz && YARN_CACHE_FOLDER=/tmp/yarn yarn add file:$(pwd)/$(echo $PACKAGE)-latest.tgz && rm -rf /tmp/yarn

Publishing

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# make sure you're signed into npm before publishing # yarn publishing is broken so lerna uses npm npm whoami # ensure everything is up2date and peachy yarn yarn bootstrap yarn lerna link yarn build yarn test # Phew, let's publish these packages! # - Will publish all changed packages # - Will ask for new pkg version per package # - Will updated inter-package dependency versions automatically yarn lerna publish # Fix new dependency version symlinks yarn bootstrap && yarn lerna link
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