Azure App Service VS Web Scrappers

Puppeteer based Web Scraper can’t be run over Azure App Service

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The Resources to dive deeper on the issue

Official Puppeteer Docs
1- https://pptr.dev/

Stackoverflow Questions regarding Headless Chrome Puppeteer limitation in Azure App Service:
1-https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57106239/why-does-puppeteer-not-work-on-azure-webapp
2- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57105911/chrome-driver-is-not-working-on-azure-web-apps
3- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47806116/how-to-run-headless-chrome-in-azure-cloud-service-or-azure-functions

Official Docs for this Issue:
https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Azure-Web-App-sandbox#win32ksys-user32gdi32-restrictions

Solution == “Mighty Azure VMs” 💓