# Sparticuz/chromium

Chromium for Serverless Platforms

Repository: https://github.com/Sparticuz/chromium
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sparticuz-chromium
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: chromium, hacktoberfest, serverless
Last push: 2026-08-25T16:19:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1437, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 98, "gap_med": 23, "n_releases_24m": 22}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1641, forks 96 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:15.253419+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: browser-extension, web-scraping, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, developer-tools
- platform: serverless, cloud, self-hosted
- tags: chromium, puppeteer, playwright, aws-lambda, brotli-compression, headless-browser, automation, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- Sparticuz/chromium (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:15.253419+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 2026-08-30T03:46:21.872789+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Sparticuz/chromium (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:15.253419+00:00, sha cf4e3098da18)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.