News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine. Parent comment

Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by tnolet on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:21PM (#17795974)
Running Headless Chrome / Chromium is a bit of a hassle on AWS Lambda and other FAAS providers. Chrome requires some specific bindings/binaries to work. I think the Chrome guys and girls convinced their Cloud coworkers to provides these in the underlying Linux machines that run the Cloud Functions.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by mylesborins on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:26PM (#17795992)
exactly this. The base operating system comes with the system libraries necessary to support headless chrome out of the box.

(disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by clarkevans on Sunday August 19, 2018 @05:02PM (#17796163)
Any chance of also supporting Firefox?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by giancarlostoro on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:36PM (#17796042)
What's to really stop other providers from doing the same thing though? :)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by manigandham on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:44PM (#17796084)
Nothing. It's about developer convenience, not technical possibility.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by tener on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:40PM (#17796066)
Project priorities, I guess.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by skunkworker on Sunday August 19, 2018 @05:14PM (#17796214)
It actually is easier than people think, after chrome added the ability to disable shm (which isn't available on lambda) you can statically compile it into a single binary and run it with chromedriver & capybara easily.

Unfortunately Google Cloud Functions don't natively support golang yet so for my business this is a non-starter.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by philliphaydon on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:35AM (#17797915)
I just found this

https://github.com/adieuadieu/serverless-chrome/blob/master/...

Don’t know if it works. Going to try this week.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by atebyagrue on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:12AM (#17799604)
Seconded. It works great. I've been using this in a lambda web collection project for the past year. Initial load times for headless chrome can be a bit slow, but iterative uses after it has launched are pretty fast.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine by emilburzo on Monday August 20, 2018 @02:07AM (#17798018)
It works and quite well, it's been pretty much set-and-forget for me for quite some months now.
[ Parent | on HN ]