https://github.com/outsideris/headless-chrome-for-lambda
a docker container to compile chrome headless shell for AWS Lambda
https://github.com/outsideris/headless-chrome-for-lambda
chromium docker headless-chrome lambda
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a docker container to compile chrome headless shell for AWS Lambda
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/outsideris/headless-chrome-for-lambda
- Owner: outsideris
- Created: 2017-06-03T16:53:33.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-09-16T09:48:18.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-11T10:18:14.999Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: chromium, docker, headless-chrome, lambda
- Language: Python
- Size: 5.86 KB
- Stars: 19
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.adoc
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= headless-chrome-for-lambda
a docker container to compile headless chrome for AWS lambda
== Get the headless_shell
It compile a chrome `headless_shell` for Amazon Linux.
You can get the compiled headless_shell in link:https://github.com/outsideris/headless-chrome-for-lambda/releases[releases].
Or, You could extract form the container from link:https://hub.docker.com/r/outsideris/headless-chrome/[DockerHub]
Run the docker container.
```
$ sudo docker run -dt --name headless-chrome headless-chrome:61.0.3114.0
a00464b6789e763b7797001b636dab494d171126da666450af9a7a463ef6b03e
$ sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
a00464b6789e headless-chrome:61.0.3114.0 "/bin/bash" 4 seconds ago Up 3 seconds
```
Copy the `headless_shell` into your host machine.
```
$ sudo docker cp headless-chrome:/chrome/Chromium/src/out/Headless/headless_shell .
```
== Build
To build chrome headless_shell, you should change the `CHROMIUM_VERSION`
in `Dockerfile`.
You can see the release tags link:https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+refs[here].
```
$ sudo docker build -t headless-chrome:61.0.3114.0 .
```
It takes about 3 hours on AWS c4.xlarge EC2 instance.
Also, it needs 8GB of RAM and 50GB disk at least.
== References
* link:https://medium.com/@marco.luethy/running-headless-chrome-on-aws-lambda-fa82ad33a9eb[How to get headless Chrome running on AWS Lambda]
* link:https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_build_instructions.md[Checking out and building Chromium on Linux]
* link:https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code/working-with-release-branches[Working with Release Branches]