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I'd say Puppeteer is on-par with Phantom for ease of basic use. It has a richer, deeper API, of course, but at its core it's modern Javascript.

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+1 on Puppeteer. Using it for something now. For small projects, the ability to have the JS you want to run within the context of the page itself live side by side with your browser instrumentation code feels magical. Head and shoulders nicer experience than in cases where half of your logic is second class code-as-a-string (e.g. trying to work directly with Gremlin Server from a non-JVM language by POSTing Groovy-as-a-string)

Thanks for the info.

> half of your logic is second class code-as-a-string (e.g. trying to work directly with Gremlin Server from a non-JVM language by POSTing Groovy-as-a-string

It must be particularly difficult when your Groovy-as-a-string script itself has many strings in its code, which is what a typical Apache Groovy build script for Gradle looks like.

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