Simple application to simulate a bored user visiting a webpage and randomly moving their mouse around the page every few seconds using Puppeteer. Useful in quickly and lazilly testing something where you need a random user in a page without caring what they're doing as long as they're doing something.
The easiest way to use this is to run using Docker Compose:
docker compose up --build
This method will run the app in the Puppeteer Docker Container which handles all the browser dependencies for you. Just set the URL Environmental Variable and go!
This app can also be run as a normal Docker container:
docker run -e URL="https://google.com" ghcr.io/zozman/bored-user
The application can also be run as a pure Node app from the src directory:
cd src
npm install
npm run build
URL="https://google.com" npm start
This method is not recommended as you are on your own to handle Puppeteer dependencies for your OS.
URL- REQUIRED
- String
- Sets the URL of the page to visit
USER_AGENT- String
- If set, sets a custom User-Agent when the page is viewed as opposed to Puppeteer's default one
CRON_STRING- String
- Default:
*/5 * * * * *(Every 5 seconds) node-cronformat string representing how often to perform the random mouse movement
DEBUG- Boolean
- Default:
false - If enabled, provides additional logs