chrome-aws-lambda

Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda

Install

$ npm i chrome-aws-lambda

This will ship with appropriate binary for the latest stable release of puppeteer (usually updated within a day or two).

If you wish to install an older version of Chromium, take a look at Versioning.

API

Usage

The nodejs8.10 AWS Lambda runtime is required for this package to work properly.

const chromium = require('chrome-aws-lambda');
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

exports.handler = async (event, context) => {
  let result = null;
  let browser = null;

  try {
    browser = await puppeteer.launch({
      args: chromium.args,
      executablePath: await chromium.executablePath,
      headless: chromium.headless,
    });

    let page = await browser.newPage();

    await page.goto(event.url || 'https://example.com');

    result = await page.title();
  } catch (error) {
    return context.fail(error);
  } finally {
    if (browser !== null) {
      await browser.close();
    }
  }

  return context.succeed(result);
};

Versioning

This package is versioned based on the underlying puppeteer version:

Compiling

To compile your own version of Chromium check the Ansible playbook instructions.

Compression

The Chromium binary is compressed using the Brotli algorithm.

This allows us to get the best compression ratio and faster decompression times.

For this reason, a stripped-down version of iltorb is bundled as a dependency.

License

MIT