A web scraper running on AWS Lambda

This is an example of a web scraper running on AWS Lambda and Lambda Layers. It assumes, that you have AWS CDK and Docker installed. The docker image relies on serverless-chrome.

Create a CDK app enviroment

cdk init --language python

install libraries

pip install aws-cdk.core
pip install aws-cdk.aws_lambda
pip install aws-cdk.aws_events_targets
pip install aws-cdk.aws_events

copy the files below to created app folder

run.sh
index.py
app.py
Dockerfile
lambda_app/lambda_app_stack.py

build the Docker image, the output will be stored in python/ folder

docker build -t myapp .
docker run -i -v `pwd`/python:/opt/ext -t myapp

create a S3 bucket for the assets

cdk bootstrap aws://your AWS ID/region

deploy to AWS

cdk deploy

NOTE

Please note, that by default not the newest version of Chromium is used. If you have a concern about it please update the project accordingly.

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This library is licensed under the MIT-0 License. See the LICENSE file.