Serverless Chrome contains everything you need to get started running headless Chrome on AWS Lambda (possibly Azure and GCP Functions soon). The aim of this project is to provide the scaffolding for using Headless Chrome during a serverless function invocation. Serverless Chrome takes care of building and bundling the Chrome binaries and making sure Chrome is running when your serverless function executes. In addition, this project also provides a few example services for common patterns (e.g. taking a screenshot of a page, printing to PDF, some scraping, etc.). Why? Because it's neat. It also opens up interesting possibilities for using the Chrome DevTools Protocol (and tools like Chromeless or Puppeteer) in serverless architectures and doing testing/CI, web-scraping, pre-rendering, etc. You must configure your AWS credentials either by defining AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environmental variables, or using an AWS profile.

Features

  • Build Headless Chrome/Chromium
  • Test with npm test
  • Automated, regularly prebuilt binaries can be found on the Releases page
  • Support for Google Cloud Functions
  • Support for Azure Functions
  • DOM manipulation and scraping example handler

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Frameworks, Cloud Services, Web Scrapers

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MIT License

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JavaScript

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JavaScript Frameworks, JavaScript Cloud Services Software, JavaScript Web Scrapers

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2022-04-01
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