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ReferenceError: URL is not defined

See original GitHub issue

Getting this error in my CI after updating to version 5.0.0, I think it has to do something with 94800e160b9510e31d3a7f459da81991e500fe9e

/usr/lib/node_modules/lighthouse/lighthouse-core/lib/url-shim.js:35
class URLShim extends URL {
                      ^

ReferenceError: URL is not defined
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/lighthouse/lighthouse-core/lib/url-shim.js:35:23)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/lighthouse/lighthouse-core/lib/network-request.js:14:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
child_process.js:644
    throw err;

Provide the steps to reproduce

lighthouse --chrome-flags=“–disable-gpu --headless --no-sandbox” https://google.com --output json --output html --output-path ./.lighthouse/google.com_05-09-19-1557389996769.json

Environment Information

Affected Channels: CLI
Lighthouse version: 5.0.0
Node.js version: 8.11.1
Operating System: Ubuntu 17.10

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:11

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cristianoliveiracommented, May 9, 2019

I was facing the same problem but I found out that the latest version of this package requires Node 10 or above.

Relevant links: Breaking Changes - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/releases/tag/v5.0.0 PR - https://github.com/googlechrome/lighthouse/pull/8117

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bitrecipecommented, Jun 14, 2019

Add this line at the top of script solved my issue global.URL = require(‘url’).URL;

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