mrskitch

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Founder, developer at https://browserless.io/
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Comment · 8 months ago
I enjoyed reading the first few chapters, but wanted a PDF as well. I run browserless.io, so threw a quick script together to PDF-ify this. Gist is here: https://gist.github.com/joelgriffith/0e6a2a774317e845206ca8d....

You can pretty much just create a free plan and run this in our debugger, which will compile the chapters and return PDF. Pretty fun little challenge.

Comment · 2 years ago
This seems decent in Theory, though I'm not familiar if GraphQL mutations can handle conditionals. Cool idea though, but that might be a deal breaker for a lot of folks
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for that -- we did have quite a few good conversations over emails. I did read each personally and respond to them. Didn't justify the means.
Comment · 4 years ago
Hey folks, Joel here, I'm the original maker behind browserless. You've seen us before on HN -- I'm very sorry for this situation.

We didn’t intend to SPAM you or send unsolicited emails, we just wanted to ask for feedback. Being an open-source/boostrapped service, feedback is really important for us, so that’s why we thought it might be a good idea to reach out to people directly. But now it's clear that that was a wrong decision. We stopped doing that and won’t do it again.

Sorry, it won’t happen again.

Comment · 5 years ago
Wanted to say that browserless was on this podcast recently, and was great experience. I’d definitely recommend others do it as well
Comment · 5 years ago
Just JS for now since it compiles and runs entirely in the browser
Comment · 5 years ago
You’ve got it: the core service listens for inbound Upgrade http requests, starts a browser, then funnels the connection into the browser.

This debugger simply sits on top of all that, and puts the code/execution context in the browser versus the server. Cloud flare is simply detecting that our server IP is a known headless chrome instance, and is serving their bot detection check

Comment · 5 years ago
You can use our demo debugger (the address is in this blogpost). It might not match your version of puppeteer exactly, but it’s a close enough proximate that it’s still valuable

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