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Yeah, definitely a product that you don't realize you need...until you find the issue. As of now it's a pool of headless Chrome instances that you can control
by mrskitch 8y ago
Yeah, definitely a product that you don't realize you need...until you find the issue.
As of now it's a pool of headless Chrome instances that you can control remotely and run tasks through. Screenshots, PDFs, scraping... whatever you need. The reason that folks use this is because it's _really scary_ to run Chrome alongside your app's infra, so separating it out (much like a DB) is a good idea.
In the near-future we'll offer functions and other REST endpoints for doing common and user-defined tasks. This make it even more contained so your app can keep running happily without babysitting Chrome.
Great question!
- nojvek 8y agoHi Joel, I had fun collaborating with you last year on a puppeteer docker thread in GitHub. I’m super happy browserless is picking up. A bit jealous of your success but still rooting for you! Containerized Puppeteer is amazing. Hope Google acquires browserless.io some day.
- int0x80 8y agoThanks very much for the clarification. Indeed it looks very useful.