chrome-aws-lambda-layer VS browsershot

This repository hosts a Community Lambda Layer so we can use it directly on our function. At this time the latest version is 24

Have you installed a Chrome / Chromium binary as a Lambda layer (e.g. this layer)? Chrome isn't included by default.

FROM laravelphp/vapor:php74 RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache curl unzip WORKDIR /opt RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/shelfio/chrome-aws-lambda-layer/raw/master/chrome_aws_lambda.zip --output chrome_aws_lambda.zip RUN unzip chrome_aws_lambda.zip -d /opt RUN rm chrome_aws_lambda.zip RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/lambci/node-custom-lambda/raw/master/v12.x/layer.zip --output node-custom-lambda.zip RUN unzip node-custom-lambda.zip -d /opt/node-custom-lambda RUN cp -avr /opt/node-custom-lambda/bin /opt/bin RUN rm node-custom-lambda.zip && rm -rf node-custom-lambda WORKDIR / COPY . /var/task

Puppeteer automates Chromium browsers (headless and non-headless), but can Chromium run in a Lambda function? Not without some great work from the community to create a Chrome build for the AWS Lambda runtime. There’s also a Lambda layer solution for this too, although I haven’t tried this approach yet. Another great feature of this package is that it runs headless when running in Lambda and non-headless when running locally - so it’s frictionless to develop, test and run your scripts.

Sure! PHP makes it really simple. I use https://github.com/spatie/browsershot that just makes its way through a JSON feed of the links on a cronjob. I host a lot of stuff on a single VPS so its super flexible.

I used https://github.com/spatie/browsershot along with the WP REST API on a cronjob. I actually used it for social preview images too! https://twitter.com/addy_codes. Each link has a hidden page that builds the social preview in HTML then the screenshot tool screenshots it for me.

We have an application that generates shipping documentation in PDF formats based on data pulled from our ERP software. I wrote this application myself and uses templates defined in CSS and then use this package to generate the PDF: https://github.com/spatie/browsershot

I've recently switched from wkhtmltopdf to https://github.com/spatie/browsershot.

I highly recommend using Chrome in headless mode using this package.

Browsershot is a software by Spatie that converts a webpage into an image or PDF by utilising a headless instance of Chrome. In this post, you will learn how to install it in your Laravel application and use it.

An alternative and a more popular solution to this is of course spatie/browsershot which does the same thing but using headless Chrome. I used to use Snappy years ago, but now I use Browsershot.

Has anyone managed to make Browsershot (https://github.com/spatie/browsershot) work on Laravel Vapor with docker ?