# schickling/chromeless

🖥  Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda.

Repository: https://github.com/schickling/chromeless
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chromeless
Homepage: https://chromeless.netlify.com
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: serverless, integration-testing, headless-chrome, headless, graphcool, nightmarejs, selenium, chrome
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-11-13T02:23:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3380, "days_push": 2851, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 13223, forks 568 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:02.601965+00:00)

## What it is
Chromeless is a TypeScript library providing a simple API for automating Chrome, either locally or headlessly on AWS Lambda. It supports browser integration testing, web crawling, screenshots, and bot scripting, and is now deprecated in favor of Puppeteer.

## Use cases
- run browser integration tests in parallel
- scrape and extract data from web pages
- take automated screenshots of websites
- automate form filling and clicking in a real browser
- run headless Chrome on AWS Lambda
- replace PhantomJS, NightmareJS, or Selenium workflows

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy codebase already using Chromeless
- you need a simple API to script a real browser locally or on Lambda

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the project is deprecated in favor of Puppeteer
- you need active maintenance, updates, or community support
- you need modern Chrome DevTools Protocol features

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: e2e-testing, web-scraping, http-client, testing
- domain: web-development, testing, developer-tools
- platform: serverless, cloud, cross-platform
- tags: headless-chrome, browser-automation, aws-lambda, deprecated, selenium-alternative, screenshots, web-crawler, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- schickling/chromeless (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:02.601965+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:13:25.914665+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/schickling/chromeless (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:02.601965+00:00, sha f746f3f940c7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.