Browserless VS Api2Pdf

Hello, I am building a scraper and I want to know if anyone knows an alternative to browserless.io? Source: 10 months ago

Otherwise, any pdf to hml chromium based solution hosted via docker, like gotenberg](https://github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg) or browserless.io(which is free if you create open source). Generating pdfs from html directly in .NET was always a pain. Wkhtml (and wrappers that use it) uses WebKit and comes with a load of issues of its own, similar to running and styling anything in Safari. Using chromium based engine... Source: 11 months ago

If you're looking for something free, you can self host browserless.io image yourself https://hub.docker.com/r/browserless/chrome, it's free up to 50k sessions per month. Then you'd have to use some library such as puppeteer to scrape... And instagram does rate limit so your best bet would be to use proxies to get around that. Source: almost 2 years ago

Browserless.io lets you scrape all these sites, you can pay per second of usage or use a dedicated worker starting at $50/mo, you can scrape 10 sites concurrently so it's pretty affordable. Caveat is you don't get a dataset back, you'll have to inspect for selectors to get back what you need, but they are putting out a bunch of tutorials recently with copy paste examples such as... Source: almost 2 years ago

I love using browserless.io for things I can't scrape with a simple fetch. I use it especially single-page applications that need to be rendered before you can fetch data... They have APIs for most use cases, and when not, I can wrap puppeteer code inside their /funtion API and boom it's done. Source: almost 2 years ago

My colleague and I built api2pdf.com and launched in 2018. It was a massive amount of upfront work requiring sleepless nights and weekends for months on end because launching a SaaS involves way more than just the software component. Source: over 1 year ago

It might be easiest to use something like api2pdf.com to convert the HTML to PDF using a simple REST API call instead of trying to wrangle wkhtmltopdf or headless chrome inside serverless functions on Netlify or Google Cloud. That can often be a real hassle. Source: almost 2 years ago

I built api2pdf.com - there was a massive upfront effort to build the product, infrastructure, marketing, everything you need to create a real business and a reliable, high quality service. Source: almost 3 years ago

I run api2pdf.com and we support both wkhtmltopdf and Headless Chrome. Wkhtmltopdf supports a few interesting tidbits that Chrome does not yet (like automatic table of contents generation). Source: about 3 years ago