Do you have a value that you manually need to monitor and log? Automate the whole process with a simple Node.js application on Google Cloud!

Introduction

I have a resource that lives on multiple websites. I want to monitor this resource and log it in Google Sheets. The problem is that there are no APIs available for me to automatically get the statistics that I want.

Enter: Playwright

Playwright is a Node.js library for browser automation created by Microsoft. It can run a so-called "headless" version of a WebKit, Chromium, or Firefox browser. That simply means a browser without the actual GUI. …