headless-chrome-for-lambda

a docker container to compile headless chrome for AWS lambda

Get the headless_shell

It compile a chrome headless_shell for Amazon Linux. You can get the compiled headless_shell in releases.

Or, You could extract form the container from DockerHub

Run the docker container.

$ sudo docker run -dt --name headless-chrome headless-chrome:61.0.3114.0
a00464b6789e763b7797001b636dab494d171126da666450af9a7a463ef6b03e

$ sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
a00464b6789e        headless-chrome:61.0.3114.0   "/bin/bash"         4 seconds ago       Up 3 seconds

Copy the headless_shell into your host machine.

$ sudo docker cp headless-chrome:/chrome/Chromium/src/out/Headless/headless_shell .

Build

To build chrome headless_shell, you should change the CHROMIUM_VERSION in Dockerfile. You can see the release tags here.

$ sudo docker build -t headless-chrome:61.0.3114.0 .

It takes about 3 hours on AWS c4.xlarge EC2 instance. Also, it needs 8GB of RAM and 50GB disk at least.

References

• How to get headless Chrome running on AWS Lambda

• Checking out and building Chromium on Linux

• Working with Release Branches