BEbenmanns·Aug 22, 2017
In Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chromeadieuadieu
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serverless-chrome
🌐 Run headless Chrome/Chromium on AWS Lambda
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🌐 Run headless Chrome/Chromium on AWS Lambda
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesOne of the biggest wins here is this little tidbit:
> When you install Puppeteer, it downloads a recent version of Chromium (~71Mb Mac, ~90Mb Linux, ~110Mb Win) that is guaranteed to work with the API.
A lot of the chrome interface libs about at the moment require you to maintain your own instance of chrome/chromium and launch the headless server with your command line, or require a pre compiled version, that can quickly get out of date (https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome/tree/master/...). Having this taken care of is a blessing.
In Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node APIWe're using serverless-chrome for the headless-chrome-on-aws-lambda part. https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome
If you're interested in how serverless-chrome works, I wrote an article on how to get headless chrome running on AWS Lambda from scratch here: https://medium.com/@marco.luethy/running-headless-chrome-on-...
In Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS LambdaShameless plug: I've been hacking on headless chrome in AWS Lambda but with selenium webdriver support [1], also using the binaries from the serverless-chrome [2] project.
To echo another comment on this thread, headless chrome seems well-positioned to shake up the automated browser testing market. The price—especially with the AWS Lambda free tier—is very, very compelling for a number of projects.
[1] https://github.com/smithclay/lambdium
[2] https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome
In Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS LambdaFor now, we're using the workaround proposed here: https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome/issues/41#is...
The Chromeless Proxy service uses the @serverless-chrome/lambda package as is. Same build.
In Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS LambdaI've been using serverless-chrome for the past few weeks and this looks like a big improvement in usability!
https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome
In Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda