Connecting Browsers In Puppeteer

Is it possible to connect a browser to puppeteer without instantiating it in puppeteer? For example, running an instance of chromium like a regular user and then connecting that to

Solution 1:

The answer is Yes and No.

You can connect to an existing using the connect function:

const browserURL = 'http://127.0.0.1:21222';
const browser = await puppeteer.connect({browserURL});

But, if you want to use those 2 lines you need to launch Chrome with the "--remote-debugging-port=21222 argument.