jaimeiniesta

jaimeiniesta

Screenshots as a service

I maintain a project that lists hundreds of thousands of web pages, and I’d like to show a screenshot for each web page. There are already some services out there that give you this service, and are very easy to integrate in an app - all you need is use an IMG tag, basically, but I’m worried about the costs.

So, I’m evaluating building this in-house to reduce costs. I think that it would be pretty easy to set up an AWS Lambda with Puppetteer that, given the URL of the page and some options like size, takes a screenshot and maybe caches it to S3?

Do you have any experience with this? Is there already an open source solution that I can easily set up?

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AstonJ

AstonJ

I would think it’d be significantly cheaper to create and run you own than use AWS Lambda :slight_smile:

You could use something like:

…and host the service on a very cheap dedicated server (you can get them for about $40 a month now I think). You could them simply copy them over to your app or hotlink to them from a sister-domain or subdomain on that server. Large hard drives are very cheap now, so you could easily host up to 2TB for around that cost I reckon.

There are lots of good dedicated server suggestions in this thread on EF btw: https://elixirforum.com/t/deploying-elixir-opinions-on-heroku-digitalocean-bluemix-etc/289

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