Is headless Chrome really available on App Engine/Cloud Functions?

Masataka Yakura

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Aug 28, 2019, 12:31:57 PM8/28/19

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Hi, I just found I cannot access the last year's announcement on headless Chrome support on App Engine and Cloud Functions.

The URL https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-headless-chrome-support-in-cloud-functions-and-app-engine redirects to https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development . And I don't see any mentions on the documentation.

Has the project been shut down? or something wrong on the blog?

George (Cloud Platform Support)

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Aug 28, 2019, 4:14:58 PM8/28/19

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Hello Masataka,

Headless Chrome is indeed available in Cloud Functions, you may check sub-chapter "Support for headless Chrome and additional system libraries" on "Cloud Functions serverless platform is generally available" page. You can easily convince yourself by creating a Cloud Function and importing Puppeteer. You may also read related material on the web, for instance "running puppeteer code in firebase cloud functions".

Masataka Yakura

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Aug 28, 2019, 11:34:53 PM8/28/19

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Hello George,

On Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 5:14:58 AM UTC+9, George (Cloud Platform Support) wrote:

Hello Masataka,

Headless Chrome is indeed available in Cloud Functions, you may check sub-chapter "Support for headless Chrome and additional system libraries" on "Cloud Functions serverless platform is generally available" page. You can easily convince yourself by creating a Cloud Function and importing Puppeteer. You may also read related material on the web, for instance "running puppeteer code in firebase cloud functions".

Thanks! That helps me a lot.

What happened to the blog entry? Just curious. It's worth republishing.

Anyways. Thank you.

Masataka

Diogo Almeida

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Aug 29, 2019, 11:11:18 PM8/29/19

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The link to the article “Introducing headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine” is not working and I could not find it anywhere even though the link to it is here. I inquired the blog administrators whether it will be republished and you can follow up on this issue tracker.

Luke Gackle

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Feb 4, 2020, 8:23:03 AM2/4/20

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I see this thread is slightly old by if it's of any help there's a complete step by step guide to setting up Puppeteer on Google Cloud Functions with starter template code that you can copy at: https://lukestoolkit.blogspot.com/2020/02/web-scraping-with-puppeteer-in-google.html

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