Using Google Maps Traffic Screenshots for Urban Planning and Civil Engineering
Learn what Google Maps traffic screenshots show, how to capture and document them, and when engineering decisions require structured traffic data.
Engineering
Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium and headless Chrome, and what they take to run well.
How to Optimize Screenshot Rendering Speed With Puppeteer and Chrome DevTools Protocol
Make Puppeteer screenshots faster by measuring each pipeline stage, reducing capture work, and tuning Chrome DevTools Protocol encoding.
Taking a Screenshot from the Surface with Puppeteer and Chrome DevTools Protocol
Capture reliable browser screenshots with Puppeteer or Chrome DevTools Protocol, including surface, full-page, clipping, encoding, and troubleshooting.
Build a SaaS Screenshot Export Feature
Design and ship a reliable SaaS screenshot export: capture scope, formats, rendering consistency, Playwright code, operations, and API options.
Running Headless Chrome in Production: Lessons From the First Year
A practical guide to running Headless Chrome safely in production: sandboxing, queues, capacity planning, failure isolation, and hosted alternatives.
Caching and Performance for Website Screenshots
Learn which screenshot settings affect output size, how to make Playwright captures repeatable, and what caching can—and cannot—prove about performance.
How to Build a Docker Image for a Website Screenshot Service
Build a repeatable Docker image for browser screenshots with Playwright, pinned dependencies, multi-stage builds, security controls, and production tips.
Caching Patterns for Website Screenshot APIs
Design reliable screenshot API caches with complete keys, freshness controls, durable storage, HTTP delivery, billing, and troubleshooting.
Profiling and Improving Browser Automation Performance
Find slow browser tests with traces, stable waits, isolation, and measured concurrency. Includes Playwright workflows and a hosted screenshot path.
Competition Tracking: How to Build Your Own Tracker
Build a reliable competitor tracker with scheduled snapshots, normalized data, field-level diffs, alerts, guardrails, and screenshots.
Caching and Performance for Web Data Extraction
Use HTTP freshness rules, validators, and careful request pacing to cut repeated work while keeping extracted data current and crawls reliable.
Why Headless Browsers Are Easy Locally and Hard in Production
Headless browsers rely on binaries, libraries, permissions, memory and lifecycle settings that differ between laptops and production. Here’s how to make those environments reproducible.
How Isolated Worlds Reduce Visible Browser Automation
Chrome extension isolated worlds separate JavaScript environments, but share the page DOM. Learn what that changes, what remains visible, and how to test it.
How to Scale a Puppeteer Screenshot API on Kubernetes
Scale Puppeteer screenshot workers on Kubernetes with measured capacity, workload-aware autoscaling, bounded concurrency, and graceful shutdown.
How to Compress API Functions with Brotli, Gzip, or LZ-String
Learn when to use Brotli, gzip, or LZ-String for API responses, with runnable Node.js, Express, cURL, Python, and JavaScript examples.
How to Make WebGL Screenshots Up to 3× Faster
Use WebGL 2 pixel-pack buffers, fences, and framebuffer discipline to reduce screenshot stalls—and learn when the reported 3× gain applies.