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Can we run crawlee in Vercel edge functions?

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The community member is asking if they can run the Crawlee library in Vercel Edge functions. They mention that Edge functions are cheaper and don't have a maximum execution timeout, but they are getting a "crawlee is not defined" error when trying to use it in Edge functions, while it works fine in normal serverless API routes. The community member has followed some instructions from a Discord channel to address a similar Puppeteer error, but the issue with Crawlee in Edge functions remains unresolved.

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Hello,

Can we run crawlee in Vercel Edge functions? The interesting this with edge functions, besides the fact that it's cheaper, is that it doesn't have a maximum execution timeout as long you keep streaming back something to the client.

Followed the instructions here since I was getting the same puppeteer error: https://discord.com/channels/801163717915574323/1178072249362813009

It works fine in a "normal" serverless API routes but I get Error [ReferenceError]: crawlee is not defined when in edge functions.
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