pappet

Pappet is a command-line tool to crawl websites using puppeteer. It allows you to crawl multiple pages in parallel and recursively. Take screenshots or create PDFs in seconds.

Install

npm i -g pappet

Usage

Usage: pappet [OPTION]... [URL]...
Options:
  --help                 Show help
  --version              Show version number
  -q, --quit             Be quit
  -t, --tabs             Set number of pages
  -s, --screenshot       Take a screenshot
  -p, --pdf              Take a PDF
  -m, --mhtml            Save as mhtml
  -r, --recursive        Recursively visit links
  -l, --level            Set recursion depth
  -w, --width            Set page width
  -h, --height           Set page height
  -f, --full-page        Take a screenshot of the full scrollable page
  -L, --relative         Follow relative links only
  --device-scale-factor  Specify device scale factor
  --is-mobile            Take meta viewport into account
  --has-touch            Support touch events
  --is-landscape         Set viewport in landscape mode
  --https-only           Follow HTTPS links only
  --same-origin          Only visit pages with same origin
  --disable-js           Disable javascript
  --user-agent           Set user agent
  --pattern              Only follow links that match the supplied regular expression

Examples

Pappet allows you to write most of the options in a long and short form. I will use the shorter syntax here for convenience.

Take a screenshot (-s, --screenshot)

pappet -s https://example.com

You can also specify the width and height of the viewport.

pappet -s -w 800 -h 600 https://example.com

Take a screenshot of the full scrollable page. By specifying the option -f or --full-page.

pappet -sf https://example.com

Take a PDF (-p, --pdf)

pappet -p https://example.com

Save page as mhtml (-m, --mhtml)

pappet -m https://example.com

Crawl a website recursively and take screenshots (-r, --recursive)

pappet -sr https://example.com

When crawling websites recursively you should specify a maximum depth (default 1) for not crawling to long. You can do that by using the -l or --level option.

pappet -srl2 https://example.com

Crawl multiple pages at once

You can specify a infinite number of URLs to crawl.

pappet -rs https://example.com https://example.com

When doing this it's recommended to use the option -t or --tabs. This will set the maximum number of pages used by puppeteer (default 2). The more pages you have the faster it will be. Be careful by specifying this option. Some websites may block you, for sending to many requests at once.

pappet -rst4 https://example.com

Disable javascript and take a screenshot

pappet -sf --disable-js https://example.com

Only visit pages with same origin

This will only follow links of the same origin (example.com).

pappet -rs --same-origin https://example.com

Only follow relative links

pappet -rsL https://example.com

Using regular expression

pappet -rp --pattern "/articles/.*" https://example.com