Puppeteer vs Playwright for Web Scraping in 2026

const { chromium } = require('playwright');

// Two sticky lines generated in the ZentisLabs dashboard or API
// ("host:port:user:pass"), used exactly as generated: each is pinned
// to one gateway node, so each context keeps its own IP.
const lines = ['PASTE_STICKY_LINE_1', 'PASTE_STICKY_LINE_2'];
const toProxy = (line) => {
  const [host, port, username, password] = line.split(':');
  return { server: `http://${host}:${port}`, username, password };
};

(async () => {
  const browser = await chromium.launch();

  // Each context uses a different proxy and is fully isolated
  const context1 = await browser.newContext({ proxy: toProxy(lines[0]) });

  const context2 = await browser.newContext({ proxy: toProxy(lines[1]) });

  // Both run in parallel with different IPs
  const page1 = await context1.newPage();
  const page2 = await context2.newPage();

  await Promise.all([
    page1.goto('https://site.com/page/1'),
    page2.goto('https://site.com/page/2'),
  ]);
})();

// Playwright - just works, waits automatically
await page.click('.load-more');
const text = await page.textContent('.result');

// Puppeteer - you often need manual waits
await page.waitForSelector('.result', { visible: true });
await page.click('.load-more');
await page.waitForTimeout(2000);
const text = await page.$eval('.result', el => el.textContent);

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer-extra');
const StealthPlugin = require('puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth');
puppeteer.use(StealthPlugin());

(async () => {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    args: ['--proxy-server=http://basic.resi.zentislabs.com:12321'],
    headless: 'new',
  });

  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.authenticate({ username: 'USER', password: 'PASS' });
})();

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.launch()
    context = browser.new_context(
        proxy={
            "server": "http://basic.resi.zentislabs.com:12321",
            "username": "USER",
            "password": "PASS_country-us"
        }
    )
    page = context.new_page()
    page.goto("https://target-site.com")
    content = page.content()
    browser.close()

import asyncio
from pyppeteer import launch

async def main():
    browser = await launch(
        args=['--proxy-server=http://basic.resi.zentislabs.com:12321']
    )
    page = await browser.newPage()
    await page.authenticate({'username': 'USER', 'password': 'PASS'})
    await page.goto('https://target-site.com')
    content = await page.content()
    await browser.close()

asyncio.run(main())