Is this a cheaper alternative to browserbase? I am a bit confused since you mention creating endpoints for scraping many times, I just want to do browser automation. Is that a use case you support?
Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps
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Re: Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps
#42Shame I already rolled this out in-house (and spent way too long trying to achieve it) - this would have been perfect for my use case. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get chrome to boot so quickly? GCP is unbelievably good at launching containers quickly but chrome is slow to launch.
We actually keep a pool of browsers ready so when a request comes we just assign it to an already running browser. This way in most situations there is no actual waiting for chrome to startup!
Is each browser process dedicated to a single customer, or do you clear cookies and other state (localStorage, cache, Chrome advertising features...) between customers?
Re: Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps
#43Is this a cheaper alternative to browserbase? I am a bit confused since you mention creating endpoints for scraping many times, I just want to do browser automation. Is that a use case you support?
Sorry for the confusion, yes we do! https://docs.hyperbrowser.ai/guides/connect-with-puppeteer
Happy to help with anything :)
Re: Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
We actually keep a pool of browsers ready so when a request comes we just assign it to an already running browser. This way in most situations there is no actual waiting for chrome to startup!
Is each browser process dedicated to a single customer, or do you clear cookies and other state (localStorage, cache, Chrome advertising features...) between customers?
We use a new browser for each session you create! We don't share the browsers between different customers.
Re: Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps
#45Nice one - We have a similar service provided from Charity Engine, our "crowdsourced cloud service" - https://www.charityengine.com/marketplace . (Relevant docs here: https://www.charityengine.com/docs/Smart+Proxy+Service )
Of note: as Charity Engine is a general-purpose distributed compute platform, it's possible to run applications to post-process web content "at the edge" of the network, as the data is streamed back. Ex we're now running small LLMs along with the browsers, so it's possible to do things like run sentiment analysis, generate image descriptions, summarize content, etc – all at scale, enabled by hundreds of thousands of processors.
For more, see this talk: "Distributed Intelligence for Distributed Data" - https://youtu.be/YQe--AZFUuQ?si=_HoqkdooNPSR7dDQ (13mins)
Re: Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps
#46Will Hyperbrowser soon offer live session view like BrowserBase does e.g., https://docs.browserbase.com/features/session-live-view
It'll be great to enable end users to view and control the remote browser session.
Btw, Hyperbrowser seems great! Thanks for building this