This repository contains a Dockerfile for platform-specific browser images for Browsertrix Crawler, based on Ubuntu 22.04, using Brave Browser or Chrome/Chromium depending on the --target passed to docker buildx build. Valid values: brave, chrome.
Brave is set as the default in the build scripts included in this repository, which set the --target based on the value of the BROWSER environment variable.
The CI is setup to build the images for each browser and platform, create draft releases on GitHub if a matching one does not already exist, and publish the images to DockerHub on each push to the main branch.
This image can be accessed from webrecorder/browsertrix-browser-base:<BROWSER>-<BROWSER_VERSION>.
See build.sh for how to build this image locally using docker buildx.
With --target=brave, the build uses Brave Browser for both AMD64 and ARM64 builds.
The .deb files are retrieved from releases the Brave Browser GitHub repository, based on the BROWSER_VERSION build-arg supplied. If BROWSER_VERSION is set to latest, the .deb files from the latest stable release on GitHub will be used.
With --target=chrome, the build uses Google Chrome for AMD64 builds and Chromium builds for ARM64.
The .deb files are placed in platform-specific directories, <BROWSER_VERSION>/linux/amd64 and <BROWSER_VERSION>/linux/arm64 to support builds for those platform.
