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Browserless Docs
Company blog · docs.browserless.io/blogprogrammingweb
Browserless Docs is the company blog at docs.browserless.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “The new browser-based puppeteer REPL, and how we built it”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Browserless documentation as a reference for its PDF API and for rendering HTML or URLs in a hosted browser. Commenters cite it while describing their own setups.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Documentation for BrowserQL, BaaS, REST APIs, enterprise deployments, MCP, and AI integrations.
Most-linked posts?
- /docs/pdf.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-19
- The new browser-based puppeteer REPL, and how we built it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
What Hacker News says?
Makes sense! We have the same setup. FWIW, it's nice to do the React rendering on the backend because it's a bit easier to pass values to those templates directly (as opposed to using URL params or something). We render the React to a string there, then just pass that HTML string to a Browserless[0] instance. Certainly not a showstopper though, passing a URI is easy enough! [0] https://docs.browserless.io/docs/pdf.h…
Comment linking /docs/pdf.html
on “Choose Boring Technology (2015)”Submitted Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself as a story · 543 points
HN discussionI've written a bit about this in regards to browserless.io: https://docs.browserless.io/blog/2018/08/01/running-an-indie... if you're curious. But in short: 1. Build something that you're an expert on, and know how to build it. You can't do it all, but knowing how to do most of it goes a long ways. Hire out for the rest. 2. Be intimately aware of what the product should be from the users standpoint. What does it do…
Comment linking /blog/2018/08/01/running-an-indie-business.html
on “Ask HN: How to found a company as a single founder?”Submitted Observations running 2M headless sessions as a story · 315 points
HN discussionHave you seen https://docs.browserless.io/docs/pdf.html ? It’s in a docker image too if that’s all you need.
Comment linking /docs/pdf.html
on “Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine”Submitted The new browser-based puppeteer REPL, and how we built it as a story · 91 points
HN discussionFWIW you can run non-headlessly: https://docs.browserless.io/docs/chrome-flags.html#setting-h...
Comment linking /docs/chrome-flags.html
on “Creating an open-source solution to the headaches of headless browsers”Submitted Dealing with file downloads in puppeteer as a story · 9 points
HN discussionBrowserless have browsers as a service, and a dedicated pdf endpoint[0] you can call. Had really good experience with this. [0] http://docs.browserless.io/rest-apis/pdf-api
Comment linking /rest-apis/pdf-api
on “Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?”Submitted Phantom pain: the first year running headless Chrome in production as a story · 4 points
HN discussionDefinitely: https://docs.browserless.io/docs/chrome.html#launching-with-... . I still need to write some form of docs on how to handle the auth window properly in puppeteer, but it's definitely possible
Comment linking /docs/chrome.html
on “Ask HN: What’s helpes you build a successful SaaS business?”Submitted White whale hunting: finding and fixing a slow Node.js memory leak as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCool, I’m wondering how this compares to https://docs.browserless.io/blog/2021/03/10/new-live-debugge...
Comment linking /blog/2021/03/10/new-live-debugger.html
on “Show HN: Puppeteer scripts in the Browser, DevTools on remote pages”Submitted How Browserless.io Screencasting Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis post was in response to another (last year) post we did last year: https://docs.browserless.io/blog/2018/06/04/puppeteer-best-p... . Many of those things still applied, but we've picked up on a few new tricks since then.
Comment linking /blog/2018/06/04/puppeteer-best-practices.html
on “Headless Chrome tips after running 5M sessions a week”Submitted Painless Puppeteer Debugging as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Browserless usage-based accounts are live (solo, self-bootstrapped) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browserless now has global instances available as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple tips to improve puppeteer's performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elegantly debugging puppeteer and fixes to common issues as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Browserless pay-per-use and functions are coming soon as a story · 1 points
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