Observations running 2 million headless sessions

June 4, 2018

We're excited to announce that we've recently just crossed over 2 million sessions served! That's millions of screenshots generated, PDF's printed, and websites tested. We've done just about everything you can think of with a headless browser.

While we're excited to have achieved this milestone there's definitely been a lot of hiccups and issues we've seen along the way. Because of the amount of traffic we've gotten, we'd like to take some time and outline common best practices when running headless browsers (and puppeteer) in a production environment.

Browserless functions and usage-based accounts!

May 26, 2018

Joel Griffith

Usage-based accounts are now live! Read more about them here.

We're extremely excited to announce that we'll soon be entering a closed-beta for browserless functions and a new payment option: usage-based payment! We've listened to your comments and suggestions, and we hope these new features will give you flexibility on how to organize your headless-browser work and how to pay for it!

Running Chrome Headless on Linux

April 25, 2018

Joel Griffith

You've written your puppeteer code, you've made sure it works, and now it's time to get your project running someplace. This might be on a hosting provider like Amazon Web Services or on your own hardware. In any case chances are that you're running some flavor of Linux, and if you're reading this then you've undoubtebly ran into some issues getting Chrome to run properly.

Handling large images in puppeteer

February 22, 2018

Joel Griffith

Puppeteer has the ability to take screenshots of a website, but it comes with some limitations. If your site's height or width exceeds ~16,000 pixels then you're likely to notice some blank spots. While this might leave you scratching your head, the solution is pretty easy.

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