NoVNC (#58)

* Fix README

* NoVNC

* README

Dockerfile

@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ ENV RESOLUTION=1080x720
 # Note: this installs the necessary libs to make the bundled version of Chromium that Puppeteer
 # installs, work.
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install -y wget gnupg tightvncserver xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfonts-base dbus-x11 \
+    && apt-get install -y wget gnupg tightvncserver xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfonts-base dbus-x11 novnc \
     && wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/googlechrome-linux-keyring.gpg \
     && sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/googlechrome-linux-keyring.gpg] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' \
     && apt-get update \
     && apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-thai-tlwg fonts-khmeros fonts-kacst fonts-freefont-ttf libxss1 \
       --no-install-recommends \
+    && ln /usr/share/novnc/vnc.html /usr/share/novnc/index.html \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 RUN mkdir -p /app
@@ -36,5 +37,7 @@ RUN yarn install
 EXPOSE 3000
 # VNC-server
 EXPOSE 5901
+# NoVNC
+EXPOSE 5900
 
 CMD ./start_container.sh

README.md

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Example request body:
     "waitOptions": {  // selector, xpath or timeout, same as in the goto method
       "timeout": 5000, //default timeout is 1000ms
     }
- }
+}
 ```
 
 ### **/har**
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ async function action(page, request) {
     };
     await page.close();
     return response;
- }
+}
 ```
 
 ### **/screenshot**
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Example request body:
         "quality": 100,
         "fullPage" : true 
      }
- }
+}
 ```
 
 ### **/recaptcha_solver**
@@ -324,6 +324,12 @@ You may expect the service to fit 60 open contexts into 1 gigabyte of RAM.
 
 Once you don't need the browser tab you need to explicitly close it (e.g. at the end of the parse method).
 
+## VNC and NoVNC
+
+In case when `HEADLES=false` environment variable is explicitly set,
+you may use VNC-server on 5901 port or view NoVNC in browser at localhost:5900.
+These provide the ability to check container's process.
+
 ## TODO
 
 - [x] skeleton that could handle goto, click, scroll, and actions.

start_container.sh

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 if [ "${HEADLESS}" == "false" ]; then
   printf "%s\n%s\nn" "${VNC_PASSWORD:=password}" "${VNC_PASSWORD:=password}" | vncpasswd
   ./start_vnc.sh &
+  websockify -D 5900 localhost:5901 --web /usr/share/novnc
 fi
 
 # Start scrapy-puppeteer-service