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Browser Pool
marco.gullo/browser-pool
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A Standby Actor for providing a pool of on-demand browsers, accessible through CDP.
A Standby Actor for providing a pool of on-demand browsers, accessible through CDP.
How to use it
1import { chromium } from 'playwright'; 2 3// The Standby URL with `wss` instead of `https` 4const wsEndpoint = 'wss://marco-gullo--browser-pool.apify.actor?token=$TOKEN&other_params...' 5const browser = await chromium.connect(wsEndpoint)
Available parameters
The search parameters are designed to be compatible with browserless.io.
proxy: eitherdatacenterorresidential; selects the corresponding default proxy groups.proxyGroups: stringified JSON of an array of Apify proxy groups, e.g.,["RESIDENTIAL5"].proxyCountry: ISO 3166 country code.launch: stringified JSON containing the following properties:- headless: either
trueorfalse, passed as option to Playwright. - args: array of arguments to pass to Chromium, e.g.,
["--window-size=1920,1080", "--lang=en-US"].
- headless: either
ignoreDefaultArgs: eithertrueorfalse, if true only uses the passed browser arguments.timeout: maximum allowed time to spawn the browser server, in milliseconds.ttl: time to live, in milliseconds, of the browser session after the socket has been closed.
TODO:
blockAds: may use a browser extension.launch.stealth: may use Apify fingerprinting to avoid blocks.
TODO: implement the ability to set options using headers, to be compatible with browserbase.com.
TODO
- Expose CDP-interface via Standby mode
- Run an auto-scaled pool of web browsers and provide access to them via CDP
- Pre-configure with our browser fingerprinting and proxies to reduce blocking
Bonus:
- Playwright - automatically select a client-matching version
Support
- Playwright - Chromium
- Playwright - Chrome
- Playwright - Firefox
- Playwright - WebKit
- Puppeteer - Chromium
- Puppeteer - Chrome
- Bare CDP - Chromium
- Bare CDP - Chrome
Developer
Marco GulloMaintained by Community
Actor metrics
- 3 monthly users
- 1 star
- 33.8% runs succeeded
- Created in Aug 2024
- Modified 3 days ago
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