Learn what Trigger.dev is, why you might pair it with Browserbase, and what you can build with this integration.
Background jobs meet cloud browsersTrigger.dev is an open-source background-jobs & AI infrastructure platform. It lets you write long-running workflows in plain async/await code without worrying about queues, cron schedulers, retries, or observability. Think BullMQ + Cron + Sentry + Kubernetes, but rolled into one developer-first package and available as a hosted SaaS or self-hosted. Browserbase, on the other hand, gives you disposable, headless Chrome instances over WebSockets—perfect for scraping, screenshotting and PDF generation. When you combine the two you unlock server-side browser automation that never times out:
Challenge | How the integration helps |
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Functions on Vercel/Netlify time-out after 10–30 s | Trigger tasks have no timeouts, so long scrapes finish happily |
Queuing, retries, rate limits | Built-in retry , concurrency , and cron features |
Running Chrome on serverless | Browserbase hosts Chrome—no Lambda layers, no xvfb |
Observability | Every scrape is a run in Trigger with logs & replay |
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