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chrome
Chrome instance and panel to manage startup and shutdowns easily.
Installation
cargo install chrome_server
Usage
- Can spawn and shutdown multiple chrome instances.
- Get chrome ws connections and status.
The current instance binds chrome to 0.0.0.0 when starting via API.
Use the env variable REMOTE_ADDRESS
to change the address of the chrome instance between physical or network.
The application will pass alp health checks when using port 6000
to get the status of the chrome container.
A side loaded application is required to run chrome on a load balancer, one of the main purposes of the control panel.
The default port is 9222
for chrome.
Building without Docker
In order to build without docker set the BUILD_CHROME
env var to true.
Mac
If your running locally use the following to start the args with the first param chrome_server '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome'
API
- POST:
fork
to start a new chrome instance or usefork/$port
with the port to startup the instance. - POST:
shutdown/$PID
to shutdown the instance. ex:curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:6000/shutdown/77057'
- POST:
/json/version
get the json info of the chrome instance to connect to web sockets.
Curl Examples
fork
curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:6000/fork'
shutdown
curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:6000/shutdown'
/json/version
curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:6000/json/version' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'
# example output
{
"Browser": "HeadlessChrome/114.0.5735.133",
"Protocol-Version": "1.3",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/114.0.5735.133 Safari/537.36",
"V8-Version": "11.4.183.23",
"WebKit-Version": "537.36 (@fbfa2ce68d01b2201d8c667c2e73f648a61c4f4a)",
"webSocketDebuggerUrl": "ws://127.0.0.1:9222/devtools/browser/74f18759-f4b3-4b1f-a68c-942570542f0e"
}
Args
- The first arg is the chrome application location example linux
'/opt/google/chrome/chrome'
. - The second arg is the chrome address
127.0.0.1
. - The third arg you can pass in
init
to auto start chrome on9222
.
Example to start chrome (all params are optional):
chrome_server '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome' 127.0.0.1 init
# Chrome PID: 87659
# Chrome server at localhost:6000
# DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:9222/devtools/browser/c789f9e0-7f65-495d-baee-243eb454ea15
ENV Variables
# the chrome path on the OS
CHROME_PATH=
# the remote address of the chrome intance
REMOTE_ADDRESS=
Docker
You can build this image using the following:
- Dockerfile (Default)
- Dockerfile.playwright (Playwright Custom Chrome)
- Dockerfile.xvfb (Virtual Display)
Dependencies
~9–18MB
~247K SLoC