This is ideal for the purposes of web scraping. You can also scale up the power at any time. If you are unfamiliar with doing any kind of cloud hosting, one of the beauties of it is that this $5/mo is the cost if you leave the droplet running all month.

For our purposes, we can use the smallest droplet at only $5/mo. When you select it, you should come to this screen. A droplet in Digital Ocean is essentially just a linux machine that comes with an ip address that’s ready to go. Getting into it, after creating an account with Digital Ocean, you will want to create a new droplet. I am going to be using an Amazon scraper that I’ve discussed in previous posts as our target to get working. I am going to be targeting Ubuntu 16.04 here. It’s a very simple and inexpensive platform to host any kind of web application. While I will be going through specific steps for Digital Ocean, most of these steps should work great for any web server or just Ubuntu linux box. This is going to be a tutorial on how to set up Puppeteer to work on Ubuntu 16.04 using a Digital Ocean droplet.

Download puppeteer docker