Very recently, the necessary dependencies to run headless Chromium were added to the Azure Functions Linux Consumption environment. Until now, the only way to run it has been by using a custom Docker image on the Premium plan. It's been a challenge to run headless Chromium on Azure Functions, especially in the Consumption (serverless) plan. Azure Functions support for headless Chromium They automatically install Chromium and can use it without extra configuration. Puppeteer and Playwright each support a different set of browsers. It's interesting to note that some of the folks who worked on Puppeteer are now working on Playwright. Google maintains Puppeteer and Microsoft maintains Playwright. More recently, Puppeteer and Playwright have gained in popularity. Selenium WebDriver was a pioneer in this space.

Browser automation with Puppeteer and Playwrightīrowser automation has been around for a long time. This enables some serverless browser automation scenarios using popular frameworks such as Puppeteer and Playwright.

With a recent update to Azure Functions, it is now possible to run headless Chromium in the Linux Consumption plan.

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