extended-salmon•10mo ago
How to close Puppeteer browser mid-run while continuing actor execution in crawlee?
Hi everyone,
I’m using PuppeteerCrawler for scraping because it unblocks websites effectively and allows JavaScript execution. However, I’m facing an issue:
After accessing a website, I extract the required data from network requests (e.g., HTML) and parse it later with cheerio.
At this point, I no longer need the browser, but I still want the Actor to continue running in the background to process and format the extracted data.
Is there a way to close the Puppeteer browser mid-run to free up resources while keeping the Actor alive to handle the data?
Any guidance or examples would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
4 Replies
Someone will reply to you shortly. In the meantime, this might help:
Hi
first, using await page.browser().close() explicitly closes the Puppeteer browser instance.
extended-salmonOP•10mo ago
@Exp Hi, that's it? Nothing else? it won't affect Actor in any way?
The script can continues executing further processing after the browser is closed.