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I run a headless browser service called browserless.io. Got started due to lack of a comparable service, and all others seemed more geared for testing.

It’s been around two years now, and makes more than any prior engineering job I’ve ever had. You do have a lot of other stresses you might not otherwise have, but you’ll also work a lot less than at a traditional job!

I’m working on a few interviews for some sites, which go more into the details, and will post here when they’re done.

EDIT: feel free to comment here on anything or email me at joel at browserless dot io



Not too excited that you just doubled the prices, but the service is very good and I've found it to be much more effective than running locally. And you've also been very very good with personal replies to support requests. Congrats on your success.


Thanks for that, appreciate the honest feedback. I tried putting off the price change as long as possible, and it was time unfortunately.

In any case, the support won’t change anytime soon, and if there’s stuff that can be better I’m definitely all ears


Can this be used for automated complex web scraping (for downloading invoices behind authorized web portals on event or schedule, etc)?


We don't yet do scheduled "jobs", per se, though that's coming soon. You can do pretty much any site out there since it's full-blown Chrome doing the work. As long as you have credentials to log into the portals (and they're not behind some intranet or VPN) then you should be able to do it.

You can just try it out on our live debugger: https://chrome.browserless.io


I tried it out with a HTTPS website that requires a client certificate and could not get it to work on your online demo debugger thing. Is this supported? This would be a really useful feature for complex web scraping that I am sometimes required to do at my job.


If you can get it working locally with certificates, then there’s definitely a way.

Shoot me an email joel at browserless dot io


I almost got in to this space a few years ago, but didn't for some reason. there are a lot of fun things to work on in that problem space.




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