Puppet Master: Headless Chrome as a service

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 If you run any kind of automation with a browser 💻, you know how difficult it can be to get screenshots that look like they would in a real browser. Puppet Master is a simple REST API to allow you to grab screenshots and PDFs of any web page, rendered in real Chrome. It’s totally free to try! 🌍 It’s built on top of Headless chrome, but because it’s a REST API, using it is as simple as calling a URL. It scales infinitely because it’s built on top of a serverless architecture 📈, and the pricing scales with your usage. Puppet Master has been built on top of saasify.sh, a platform we’re building to make it easy to turn your open source software into a fully functional SaaS product. We all love open source, and believe that open source developers should be able to make an income from their valuable projects! 🤑 All feedback warmly welcomed! 💕

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5yr ago

Rob Moore

Duplikit

What's the advantage of using this instead of just running headless chrome myself?

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5yr ago

Chris Villa

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Maker

@robmoore Great question. If you can, running headless chrome yourself is normally going to be the best option. But many people work in environments where they can't install headless chrome, or find themselves working in a programming language where there isn't any good way to drive it. Puppet Master means they can still access it with ease. Additionally Puppet Master scales infinitely since it's built on serverless, which, whilst insignificant for many cases, is beneficial for higher performance applications where parallel headless chrome execution speed is a bottleneck.

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5yr ago

Rob Moore

Duplikit

@chrisvxd thanks for the response! I see https://docs.browserless.io/ is mkaing $25k/month so there is definitely a use case :)

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5yr ago

Musab

Did you just opened up some cloud and started browserless/chrome docker image? ALL of your features and more of them already provided and open source: https://github.com/browserless/c... What a shame.

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5yr ago

Travis Fischer

Reacher

Maker

@musab Puppet Master is open source as well and offers a cheaper and more scalable alternative to Browserless built upon serverless functions: https://github.com/saasify-sh/pu... This product is an example of using our platform, Saasify (also open source), whose goal is to make it as easy as possible for OSS authors to monetize their projects, a goal that I sincerely hope you'd appreciate the value of. I'm fully aware that Puppet Master as a single service isn't that impressive, but what we're building is much, much larger than any single service and we all need to start somewhere. You can learn more about Saasify here: https://saasify.sh Thanks!

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5yr ago

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