playwright-aws-lambda
Support for Playwright running on AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions.
NOTE: Currently only Chromium is supported.
Install
npm install playwright-core playwright-aws-lambda --save
Usage
This package works with the nodejs10.x
, nodejs12.x
, nodejs14.x
, nodejs16.x
, nodejs18.x
and nodejs20.x
AWS Lambda runtimes
out of the box.
const playwright = require('playwright-aws-lambda');
exports.handler = async (event, context) => {
let browser = null;
try {
browser = await playwright.launchChromium();
const context = await browser.newContext();
const page = await context.newPage();
await page.goto(event.url || 'https://example.com');
console.log('Page title: ', await page.title());
} catch (error) {
throw error;
} finally {
if (browser) {
await browser.close();
}
}
};
API
Method / Property | Returns | Description |
---|
launchChromium | {!Promise<playwright.ChromiumBrowser>} | Launches the Chromium browser. |
loadFont(url) | {Promise<void>} | Downloads and activates a custom font |
Loading additional fonts
If you need custom font support by e.g. emojicons in your browser, you have to
load it by using the loadFont(url: string)
function before you launch the
browser.
await loadFont(
'https://raw.githack.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/master/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf'
);
Thanks / Credits
This project is based on the work of
chrome-aws-lambda.