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 and nodejs18.x AWS Lambda runtimes out of the box.

constplaywright=require('playwright-aws-lambda');exports.handler=async(event,context)=>{letbrowser=null;try{browser=awaitplaywright.launchChromium();constcontext=awaitbrowser.newContext();constpage=awaitcontext.newPage();awaitpage.goto(event.url||'https://example.com');console.log('Page title: ',awaitpage.title());}catch(error){throwerror;}finally{if(browser){awaitbrowser.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.

awaitloadFont('https://raw.githack.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/master/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf');

Thanks / Credits

This project is based on the work of chrome-aws-lambda.