Running Puppeteer on AWS Lambda

What is Puppeteer?

Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.

What is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is serverless computing service.

Use Puppeteer on AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda has limitation about source code size.(Headless-Chrome installed with Puppeteer > 280MB ) So, Lambda run with Docker Image based on ‘amazon/aws-lambda-nodejs:14’

Repository

https://github.com/KanghoonYi/lambda-puppeteer

Reference

• Puppeteer Repository
  • Chrome headless doesn’t launch on UNIX
• AWS Blog
  • Field Notes: Scaling Browser Automation with Puppeteer on AWS Lambda with Container Image Support
• AWS Documentation
  • Creating Lambda container images