Browserless

Browserless provides a managed API for headless Chrome, so you can scrape dynamic websites, take screenshots, generate PDFs, and run automated tests without spinning up your own browser instances. It's Puppeteer and Playwright, hosted and scaled for you.

What it does

Send HTTP requests to Browserless's API with your Puppeteer or Playwright scripts. The service spins up a headless Chrome instance, executes your code, and returns the result—HTML, screenshot, PDF, or data. Handles concurrency, memory, and session management automatically.

Best for

• Developers scraping JavaScript-heavy sites that require a real browser
• Teams generating PDF invoices or reports from web pages
• QA engineers running automated browser tests in CI/CD pipelines

Strengths

• No infrastructure management—no Docker, no Kubernetes, no Chrome version headaches
• Supports Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium scripts
• Built-in concurrency limits prevent abuse and keep costs predictable

• Headless Chrome API — Run any Puppeteer or Playwright script via REST endpoint
• Screenshot & PDF Generation — Capture full-page screenshots or render pages to PDF
• Web Scraping — Extract data from dynamic, JavaScript-rendered pages
• Session Management — Persist cookies and local storage across requests
• Concurrency Control — Set max parallel sessions to stay within your plan
• Debugging Tools — Live logs and error reporting for failed scripts