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# @sparticuz/chromium
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## Chromium for Serverless platforms
This package was originally forked from [alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda#264](https://github.com/alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda/pull/264).
The biggest difference, besides the chromium version, is the inclusion of some code from https://github.com/alixaxel/lambdafs,
as well as dropping that as a dependency. Due to some changes in WebGL, the files in bin/swiftshader.tar.br need to
be extracted to `/tmp` instead of `/tmp/swiftshader`. This necessitated changes in lambdafs.
However, it quickly became difficult to maintain because of the pace of `puppeteer` updates. This package, `@sparticuz/chromium`,
is not chained to `puppeteer` versions. It is only `chromium`, as well as the special code needed to decompress the brotli package.
## Install
[`puppeteer` ships with a prefered version of `chromium`](https://pptr.dev/faq/#q-why-doesnt-puppeteer-vxxx-work-with-chromium-vyyy).
In order to figure out what version of `@sparticuz/chromium` you will need, please visit [Puppeteer's Chromium Support page](https://pptr.dev/chromium-support).
> For example, as of today, the latest version of `puppeteer` is `18.0.5`. The latest version of `chromium` stated on `puppeteer`'s support page is `106.0.5249.0`. So you need to install `@sparticuz/chromium@106`.
```shell
# Puppeteer or Playwright is a production dependency
npm install --save puppeteer-core@$PUPPETEER_VERSION
npm install --save-dev @sparticuz/chromium@$CHROMIUM_VERSION
```
If you wish to install an older version of Chromium, take a look at [@sparticuz/chrome-aws-lambda](https://github.com/Sparticuz/chrome-aws-lambda#versioning) or [@alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda](https://github.com/alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda).
## Usage
This package works with all the currently supported AWS Lambda Node.js runtimes out of the box.
```javascript
const puppeteer = require("puppeteer-core");
const chromium = require('@sparticuz/chromium');
exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {
let result = null;
let browser = null;
try {
browser = await puppeteer.launch({
args: chromium.args,
defaultViewport: chromium.defaultViewport,
executablePath: await chromium.executablePath,
headless: chromium.headless,
ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
});
let page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto(event.url || 'https://example.com');
result = await page.title();
} catch (error) {
return callback(error);
} finally {
if (browser !== null) {
await browser.close();
}
}
return callback(null, result);
};
```
### Usage with Playwright
```javascript
const playwright = require('playwright-core');
const chromium = require('@sparticuz/chromium');
(async () => {
const browser = await playwright.chromium.launch({
args: chromium.args,
executablePath: await chromium.executablePath,
headless: chromium.headless,
});
// ...
await browser.close();
})();
```
You should allocate at least 512 MB of RAM to your Lambda, however 1600 MB (or more) is recommended.
### Running Locally
Please refer to the [Local Development Wiki page](https://github.com/alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda/wiki/HOWTO:-Local-Development) for instructions and troubleshooting.
## API
| Method / Property | Returns | Description |
| ----------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `font(url)` | `{?Promise<string>}` | Provisions a custom font and returns its basename. |
| `args` | `{!Array<string>}` | Provides a list of recommended additional [Chromium flags](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher/blob/master/docs/chrome-flags-for-tools.md). |
| `defaultViewport` | `{!Object}` | Returns more sensible default viewport settings. |
| `executablePath` | `{?Promise<string>}` | Returns the path the Chromium binary was extracted to. |
| `headless` | `{!boolean}` | Returns `true` if we are running on AWS Lambda or GCF. |
| `puppeteer` | `{!Object}` | Overloads `puppeteer` and returns the resolved package. |
## Fonts
The Amazon Linux 2 AWS Lambda runtime is no longer provisioned with any font faces.
Because of this, this package ships with [Open Sans](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans), which supports the following scripts:
* Latin
* Greek
* Cyrillic
To provision additional fonts, simply call the `font()` method with an absolute path or URL:
```typescript
await chromium.font('/var/task/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf');
// or
await chromium.font('https://raw.githack.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/master/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf');
```
> `Noto Color Emoji` (or similar) is needed if you want to [render emojis](https://getemoji.com/).
> For URLs, it's recommended that you use a CDN, like [raw.githack.com](https://raw.githack.com/) or [gitcdn.xyz](https://gitcdn.xyz/).
This method should be invoked _before_ launching Chromium.
> On non-serverless environments, the `font()` method is a no-op to avoid polluting the user space.
---
Alternatively, it's also possible to provision fonts via AWS Lambda Layers.
Simply create a directory named `.fonts` and place any font faces you want there:
```
.fonts
├── NotoColorEmoji.ttf
└── Roboto.ttf
```
Afterwards, you just need to ZIP the directory and upload it as a AWS Lambda Layer:
```shell
zip -9 --filesync --move --recurse-paths .fonts.zip .fonts/
```
## Compiling
To compile your own version of Chromium check the [Ansible playbook instructions](_/ansible).
## AWS Lambda Layer
[Lambda Layers](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-layers.html) is a new convenient way to manage common dependencies between different Lambda Functions.
The following set of (Linux) commands will create a layer of this package:
```shell
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/sparticuz/chromium.git && \
cd chromium && \
make chromium.zip
```
The above will create a `chromium.zip` file, which can be uploaded to your Layers console.
Alternatively, you can also download the layer artifact from one of our [CI workflow runs](https://github.com/Sparticuz/chromium/actions/workflows/aws.yml?query=is%3Asuccess+branch%3Amaster).
## Google Cloud Functions
Since version `1.11.2`, it's also possible to use this package on Google/Firebase Cloud Functions.
According to our benchmarks, it's 40% to 50% faster than using the off-the-shelf `puppeteer` bundle.
## Compression
The Chromium binary is compressed using the Brotli algorithm.
This allows us to get the best compression ratio and faster decompression times.
| File | Algorithm | Level | Bytes | MiB | % | Inflation |
| ------------- | --------- | ----- | --------- | --------- | ---------- | ---------- |
| `chromium` | - | - | 136964856 | 130.62 | - | - |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 1 | 51662087 | 49.27 | 62.28% | 1.035s |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 2 | 50438352 | 48.10 | 63.17% | 1.016s |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 3 | 49428459 | 47.14 | 63.91% | 0.968s |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 4 | 47873978 | 45.66 | 65.05% | 0.950s |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 5 | 46929422 | 44.76 | 65.74% | 0.938s |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 6 | 46522529 | 44.37 | 66.03% | 0.919s |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 7 | 46406406 | 44.26 | 66.12% | 0.917s |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 8 | 46297917 | 44.15 | 66.20% | 0.916s |
| `chromium.gz` | Gzip | 9 | 46270972 | 44.13 | 66.22% | 0.968s |
| `chromium.gz` | Zopfli | 10 | 45089161 | 43.00 | 67.08% | 0.919s |
| `chromium.gz` | Zopfli | 20 | 45085868 | 43.00 | 67.08% | 0.919s |
| `chromium.gz` | Zopfli | 30 | 45085003 | 43.00 | 67.08% | 0.925s |
| `chromium.gz` | Zopfli | 40 | 45084328 | 43.00 | 67.08% | 0.921s |
| `chromium.gz` | Zopfli | 50 | 45084098 | 43.00 | 67.08% | 0.935s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 0 | 55401211 | 52.83 | 59.55% | 0.778s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 1 | 54429523 | 51.91 | 60.26% | 0.757s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 2 | 46436126 | 44.28 | 66.10% | 0.659s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 3 | 46122033 | 43.99 | 66.33% | 0.616s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 4 | 45050239 | 42.96 | 67.11% | 0.692s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 5 | 40813510 | 38.92 | 70.20% | **0.598s** |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 6 | 40116951 | 38.26 | 70.71% | 0.601s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 7 | 39302281 | 37.48 | 71.30% | 0.615s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 8 | 39038303 | 37.23 | 71.50% | 0.668s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 9 | 38853994 | 37.05 | 71.63% | 0.673s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 10 | 36090087 | 34.42 | 73.65% | 0.765s |
| `chromium.br` | Brotli | 11 | 34820408 | **33.21** | **74.58%** | 0.712s |
## License
MIT