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Articles by

Alejandro Loyola

Technical Support

Alejandro worked as a full-stack web developer and automation engineer with 6 years of experience developing C# web apps under the .NET Framework. These days he is the head of technical support for Browserless.

November 7, 2024

How to Deploy Puppeteer on GCP Compute Engines, Complete with Dependencies Copy

How to deploy Puppeteer on GCP Compute Engines, complete with separate Chrome browsers and missing dependencies.

October 29, 2024

How to Deploy Playwright on GCP Compute Engines

How to deploy Playwright and Chrome on GCP Virtual Machines, complete with VM selection and dependencies.

October 10, 2024

How to Deploy Playwright on Azure VMs, Complete with Dependencies

How to deploy Playwright and Chrome on Azure Virtual Machines, complete with working dependencies.

October 4, 2024

How to Deploy Puppeteer on Azure VM, Complete with Dependencies

How to deploy Puppeteer on Azure Virtual Machines, complete with separate Chrome browsers and missing dependencies.

September 17, 2024

How to Deploy Playwright on AWS EC2

How to deploy Playwright and Chrome on AWS EC2, complete with advice on depencies, operating systems and configuring the environment.

September 13, 2024

How to Deploy Puppeteer on AWS EC2, Including Setup and Dependencies

How to deploy Puppeteer on AWS EC2, complete with tested solutions for OS compatibility and missing dependencies.

August 30, 2024

How to Debug Playwright & Puppeteer Automations With Effective Logging

Debugging automations without the right logs wastes time and resources. Check out our guide to learn how to set up logs and efficiently troubleshoot issues.

August 21, 2024

How to Select and Maintain CI Runners for Playwright

How to fix slow or flaky CI/CD test suites, through properly upgrading and maintaining test runners. Covers symptoms of small runners and how to plan an upgrade

August 8, 2024

Event Handling and Promises in Web Scraping

How to avoid common anti-patterns in web scraping, particularly in event handling and promises, including detailed code examples.

July 5, 2024

How to Deploy Playwright on an Azure Functions App

Want to deploy Playwright on an Azure Functions App? This 4-step guide will show you how to get past size limitations and automate browser tasks.

June 28, 2024

How to Run Playwright Automations on Heroku

Looking to automate browser tasks on Heroku? Use this tutorial to learn how to integrate Playwright for seamless browser automation in the cloud.

June 19, 2024

Keep Puppeteer browsers alive with our Reconnect API

How to reuse a Chrome instance for multiple Puppeteer scripts with our /reconnect API, to speed up scraping or avoid repeat log ins.

June 13, 2024

How to Run Parallel Lighthouse Tests In Your CI Pipeline

How to run high volume Lighthouse tests as part of your continuous integration pipeline. Includes an overview of the benefits, and running concurrent tests with Browserless's /performance API

June 6, 2024

How to Deploy Puppeteer on Google Cloud Functions

Looking to deploy Puppeteer on GCP? This guide includes the code required to run Puppeteer in a Function, including dealing with challenges such as compressed browsers.

May 22, 2024

How to Deploy Puppeteer on Azure Functions for Browser Automation

How to deploy Puppeteer on Azure Functions, including instructions for using compressed browsers compatible with file size limits and saving outputs to a blob.

May 7, 2024

How to run Puppeteer on Heroku for Web Automation

Want to automate tasks on the web using Puppeteer-core and Heroku? This tutorial will walk you through the process and help you get started quickly.

April 29, 2024

How to Deploy Playwright on AWS Lambda

How to move your Playwright scripts onto AWS Lambda, with code examples for the required library files and layers.

March 28, 2024

Automatically solve any captcha as part of your Playwright or Puppeteer script

Easily add captcha solving to your Puppeteer or Playwright scripts with our API, for web scraping and other automations.

March 20, 2024

How to Deploy Puppeteer on AWS Lambda

How to deploy Puppeteer on AWS Lambda, including the use of puppeteer-core and sending generated files to an S3 bucket.

February 29, 2024

Deploying Playwright with Vercel for Effective End-to-End Testing

How to deploy Playwright on Vercel, with separately hosted browsers. Complete with code examples, you'll be up and running in no time.

February 26, 2024

Announcing the /unblock API from Browserless, a new approach to dodging bot detectors

The /unblock API clears away bot fingerprints at the CDP level, to truly humanize your Puppeteer automations.

February 20, 2024

How to use Puppeteer with Netlify

How to use Puppeteer on Netlify for tasks such as screenshots or PDF exports. This guide uses puppeteer-core with a separate Chrome instance.

January 23, 2024

How to Optimize Puppeteer Automations

Speed up your Puppeteer scraping and automations with practical tips on reusing browsers, cache management, and resource optimization.

December 18, 2023

Running scripts for Browserless using Zapier

You can run automations fully on the cloud by using Browserless with Zapier. Here's a quick guide on how to set up your first Zap.

December 15, 2023

How to generate Puppeteer scripts with Chrome's recorder

How to turn website interactions into Puppeteer scripts using Chrome's inbuilt Recorder, then run them through Browserless's API with a few tweaks.

December 13, 2023

Migrating from Selenium to Playwright

Outlining the advantages of Playwright over Selenium, with a detailed guide for how to convert your scripts and ditch the Grid.

September 5, 2023

How to extract travel data at scale with Puppeteer

August 22, 2023

WaitUntil option for Puppeteer and Playwright

Picking the best waitUntil option to use can be tricky, let's dive into the details of how each one works and how to pick the best one for each scenario.

December 7, 2022

Turning sites into structured data | How to get JSON file from Wikipedia

In this article, we'll show you how you can turn any site into a structured data. The example is Wikipedia website to JSON.

August 3, 2022

How to create a time-lapse traffic with Browserless

Take a look at how to create time-lapse traffic using Browserless open source web automation tool for developers.

April 29, 2022

How to generate dashboard and report PDFs using Puppeteer

Full instructions for adding a PDF export feature to your dashboard or other UI views using Puppeteer. Includes details on formatting and consistent rendering.

January 27, 2022

What is browserless?

This post gives an introduction to web automation with Browserless. Learn the most common use cases, libraries that work with browserless, and features the service provides.