# This is a template for a Dockerfile used to run acts in Actor system.
# The base image name below is set during the act build, based on user settings.
# IMPORTANT: The base image must set a correct working directory, such as /usr/src/app or /home/user
FROM apify/actor-node-puppeteer:beta

# Second, copy just package.json and package-lock.json since it should be
# the only file that affects "npm install" in the next step, to speed up the build
COPY package*.json ./

# Install NPM packages, skip optional and development dependencies to
# keep the image small. Avoid logging too much and print the dependency
# tree for debugging
RUN npm --quiet set progress=false \
 && npm install --only=prod --no-optional \
 && echo "Installed NPM packages:" \
 && (npm list --all || true) \
 && echo "Node.js version:" \
 && node --version \
 && echo "NPM version:" \
 && npm --version

# Copy source code to container
# Do this in the last step, to have fast build if only the source code changed
COPY --chown=node:node . ./

# NOTE: The CMD is already defined by the base image.
# Uncomment this for local node inspector debugging:
# CMD [ "node", "--inspect=0.0.0.0:9229", "main.js" ]

package.json

{
    "name": "apify-project",
    "version": "0.0.1",
    "description": "",
    "author": "It's not you it's me",
    "license": "ISC",
    "dependencies": {
        "apify": "latest",
        "es6-promise-pool": "latest"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "start": "node main.js"
    }
}

main.js

1const Apify = require('apify');
2const PromisePool = require('es6-promise-pool');
3
4// How may urls we want to process in parallel.
5const CONCURRENCY = 5;
6
7// Urls to process.
8const URLS = [
9    'http://example.com',
10    'http://news.ycombinator.com',
11    'https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=2',
12    'https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=3',
13    'https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=4',
14    'https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=5',
15    'https://www.reddit.com/',
16];
17
18let browser;
19let results = [];
20
21// This function returns promise that gets resolved once Puppeteer
22// opens url, evaluates content and closes it.
23const crawlUrl = async (url) => {
24    const page = await browser.newPage();
25        
26    console.log(`Opening ${url}`);
27    await page.goto(url);
28        
29    console.log(`Evaluating ${url}`);
30    const result = await page.evaluate(() => {
31        return {
32            title: document.title,
33            url: window.location.href,
34        };
35    });
36        
37    results.push(result);
38        
39    console.log(`Closing ${url}`);
40    await page.close();
41};
42
43// Every time it's called takes one url from URLS constant and returns 
44// crawlUrl(url) promise. When URLS gets empty returns null.
45const promiseProducer = () => {
46    const url = URLS.pop();
47    
48    return url ? crawlUrl(url) : null;
49};
50
51Apify.main(async () => {
52    // Starts browser.
53    browser = await Apify.launchPuppeteer();
54
55    // Runs thru all the urls in a pool of given concurrency.
56    const pool = new PromisePool(promiseProducer, CONCURRENCY);
57    await pool.start();
58    
59    // Print results.
60    console.log('Results:');
61    console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
62    
63    await Apify.setValue('OUTPUT', results);
64    await browser.close();
65});

Example Puppeteer

apify/example-puppeteer

Example showing how to use headless Chromium with Puppeteer to open a web page, determine its dimensions, save a screenshot, and print the page to PDF. This actor must use images with Puppeteer (Node.js 8 + Puppeteer on Debian).