--- title: "Node 16 LTS now on AWS Lambda" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 438 published_at: "2022-05-19" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/438" --- Plus work with Google Sheets documents from your Node code. | 🇺🇦 #​438 — May 19, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/438) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/vsixp1uuhkwavypaoawt.jpg)](https://www.adriancooney.ie/blog/web-scraping-via-javascript-heap-snapshots) [Web Scraping via JS Runtime Heap Snapshots](https://www.adriancooney.ie/blog/web-scraping-via-javascript-heap-snapshots) — When official APIs don’t offer all of the access users require (or don’t exist _at all_) scraping can become a less than ideal necessity. Puppeteer or Playwright make controlling a headless browser easy, but finding the data you want can still be complex.. but what if you could just pluck data objects from a page out of the heap? [Puppeteer Heap Snapshot](https://github.com/adriancooney/puppeteer-heap-snapshot) is the end result of this experiment. Adrian Cooney [Node v18.2.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.2.0/) — Don’t get too excited – this is a modest release. npm gets updated to v8.9.0, undici to v5.2.0, and some OpenSSL related issues are addressed. If you _really_ want some new features, you can now use a method to [close all connections](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42812) on `http.Server` and there’s an initial [PerformanceResourceTiming](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42725) implementation. 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Dan Fox (AWS) **Quick bytes:** - [Star History](https://star-history.com/) is a fun online tool for plotting charts of the changing number of stars that a GitHub repo has. - [Node v14.19.3 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.19.3/) has been released. - Ever wondered why we have `/bin`, `/sbin`, `/usr/bin` and `/usr/local/bin` as separate things? [Here's an interesting email about it.](http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html) [Deploying Node-RED to Google App Engine](https://coderevue.net/posts/deploy-node-red-gcp/) — [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/) is a Node-powered low-code event-driven programming environment most commonly associated with IoT and stringing together hardware devices in various ways. But you can deploy it in the cloud, too, to create your own automation system for other things. 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Immobiliare Labs [capture-website 2.4: Capture Screenshots of Websites](https://github.com/sindresorhus/capture-website) — A high-level Puppeteer wrapper to make it easy to capture screenshots of websites from Node or the command-line. Sindre Sorhus [Fast-Fuzz: An Automated Fuzzer / Test Generator for TypeScript](https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-fuzz) — [GitHub repo](https://github.com/WeWatchWall/fast-fuzz). We Watch Wall Inc. [url-unshort: Short URLs/Links Expansion Library](https://github.com/nodeca/url-unshort) Nodeca 💻 Jobs [Software Engineer at Blueground (Remote)](https://www.theblueground.com/careers?department=Engineering) — Help us build the world’s leading next-gen platform for home rentals and shape the future of living. 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