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Workers Browser Rendering API enters open beta

May 19, 2023Celso Martinho, Joshua Claeys
Workers Browser Rendering API enters open beta
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Introduces the open beta of the Workers Browser Rendering API, enabling programmatic control of headless Chromium instances via the DevTools Protocol. Integrates with Wrangler for deployment and provides a patched, open-source version of Puppeteer (@cloudflare/puppeteer) for easy automation. Demonstrates a screenshotting example Worker. Highlights internal usage for Cloudflare Radar's URL Scanner and outlines future plans for upstreaming Puppeteer changes, supporting Playwright, and exploring WebDriver BiDi.

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