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Sparticuz/chromium

Chromium for Serverless Platforms observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Sparticuz/chromium · TypeScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 86
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 23
  • age_days: 1437
  • days_rel: 98
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 22

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1641 stars · 96 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A TypeScript library that packages a serverless-optimized Chromium binary (Brotli-compressed) with decompression code and predefined launch arguments for use with Puppeteer or Playwright. It is a maintained fork of chrome-aws-lambda designed to run headless Chromium in constrained serverless environments like AWS Lambda.

Use cases

  • run headless chromium in aws lambda
  • use puppeteer on serverless platforms
  • scrape web pages in a lambda function
  • generate pdfs from html in serverless functions
  • deploy playwright with a chromium binary
  • reduce chromium deployment size with brotli compression

When to choose

  • you need headless Chromium in AWS Lambda or another serverless runtime with size and filesystem constraints
  • you want a Chromium build decoupled from specific Puppeteer versions
  • your deployment vendor limits package sizes and you can host the binary separately with chromium-min

When to avoid

  • you run Chromium on a normal server or container where the official Chrome/Chromium binaries work fine
  • you need the puppeteer overrides and hooks from the original chrome-aws-lambda package
  • you need a browser other than Chromium, such as Firefox

Facets

library · maturity active

browser-extension web-scraping developer-tools web-development developer-tools serverless cloud self-hosted chromium puppeteer playwright aws-lambda brotli-compression headless-browser automation nodejs docker

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
Sparticuz/chromiummain95

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="Sparticuz/chromium")

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