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AWS Lambda Firefox

• capableweb 7y ago
  > This is a docker based build environment that produces a modern version of Firefox (tested with latest stable 66.0.3) built and packaged in a way suitable to running in AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 AMI or to be used as a layer for AWS Lambda, to run serverless testing for example. I literally said "What?" with a giggle when reading this. I'm amazed about what have happened, but more intrigued by why it happened. Is the use case here being able to use it for testing or something similar?
  • dragonwriter 7y ago
    > Is the use case here being able to use it for testing or something similar? Yes, from the material you quoted: “...to run serverless testing for example.”
  • andymurd 7y ago
    Many people have been running headless Chrome in AWS Lambda functions for a while now. Use cases include testing, screen scraping, screen capture.
    • nwah1 7y ago
      I was employed once at an insurance brokerage that had to automate insurance quotes from carriers that did not provide any sort of API. So we used a type of page automation with a headless browser, and manually wrote the code to automate entering data into each textbox and clicking each button in sequence, adding wait times as needed for the next page to load. Would recommend avoiding this at all costs.