zach_g
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marketing manager at browserless.io
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Comment · 2 years ago
The Browser Conference is running on June 20th, featuring companies such as Google, Selenium and Sauce Labs.
It's for anyone working with browser automation, whether it's e2e testing, web scraping or AI agents.
Talks include:
> Next Gen Protocols - Looking to the Future With WebDriver BiDi
> AI-Driven Testing - Using Advanced Tools to Accelerate Development
> AI Autonomous Agents and Browser Interactions
> Web Scraping Patterns and Anti-Patterns
You can register for free to attend the live streams or to access the replays.
Comment · 2 years ago
In terms of free tools, ones like jsPDF that run client-side typically give inconsistent results. It's a better idea to use something server-side like Puppeteer, which gives more control over how it renders.
The issue is running it in prod, since using Puppeteer requires browsers to interact with. You typically end up running Puppeteer in your front end, and a bunch of Chrome browsers chewing through a separate server.
Browserless is there to provide the browsers for those free libraries to work with. Sure, you can manage them yourself, but it's a PITA.
Comment · 2 years ago
In the spirit of open source, we want to share the process as well as the product. Here's the story of our full rewrite for v2 of Browserless, down to building our own custom libraries and routing.
Comment · 2 years ago
A look at the problem areas when hosting headless chrome on EC2 or Lambda, such as for scraping or testing