headless-chrome-for-lambda

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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]