PhantomJS Lambda Template

A PhantomJS node.js app for Amazon Lambda. Based on node-lambda-template using node-lambda. The app includes a PhantomJS binary (phantomjs) compiled for AWS Linux (https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2).

Setup

Install dependencies using npm. It'll install the AWS SDK as well as PhantomJS on the development machine.

npm install

Usage

After installing use the following npm commands as described below. They're only wrapping the node-lambda functionality to allow node-lambda to be installed only locally. Additional params can be provided using -- args. For a list of available options see the node-lambda documentation.

Run the setup command to generate the environment file with the configuration used for the Amazon Lambda function. Edit the resulting .env. file with your custom settings.

For this you need to have aws account and fill out confuguration in .env file:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_aws_key_id AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_aws_secret_access_key AWS_ROLE_ARN=your_amazon_role AWS_REGION=us-east-1 ....

npm run setup

To run the function locally execute the following command.

npm run start

Run the following command to deploy the app to Amazon Lambda.

npm run deploy

Note: npm version 2.x or newer required to pass arguments to the scripts using -- args

Building phantomjs

If you want to use a different version of phantomjs or have trouble with the included version, follow the instructions in build-phantomjs.sh.