is:issue is:open When you install Puppeteer, it does not download a recent version of Chromium

when installing Puppeteer using npm install puppeteer, it does not download a recent version of Chromium as it is mentioned in the documentation.

When using puppeteer.launch({product: 'chrome'}), I found out it is looking for this folder: node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/mac-756035 which does not exist. And it does not attempt to download.

Notes:

• I have not set the environment variable to skip the download. (also tried to setting it to false)
• Tried puppeteer versions 5.0.0 and 5.4.1
• I’m using a mac

In version 5.0.0 I get the following error:

Could not find browser revision 756035. Run “npm install” or “yarn install” to download a browser binary.

Where as in version 5.4.1 I get a different error:

Could not find browser revision 809590. Run “PUPPETEER_PRODUCT=firefox npm install” or “PUPPETEER_PRODUCT=firefox yarn install” to download a supported Firefox browser binary.’

Which is even stranger cause I explicitly used product: 'chrome' in the launch options.

Error is at https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/6d06adea10572d2667a9d1c5a48193903860341b/src/node/Launcher.ts#L751

cause the executablePath is something like: node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/mac-756035 which does not exist.

https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/6d06adea10572d2667a9d1c5a48193903860341b/src/node/Launcher.ts#L773

[sgalindo2388]

Was anyone able to figure how to solve this issue? I started getting this error today and I’m not sure what else I can do.

I’ve tried removing puppeteer and re-installing (7.1.0 & 8.0.0), using different versions of node (8.15.1, 10.16.3 & 14.16.0) and npm(6.9.0 & 7.7.6) and keep getting the error:

"Error: Could not find expected browser (chrome) locally. Run `npm install` to download the correct Chromium revision (848005).
                    at ChromeLauncher.launch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/backstopjs/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/Launcher.js:80:27)
                    at async processScenarioView (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/backstopjs/core/util/runPuppet.js:63:19)"

I’m trying to run a Backstopjs(https://github.com/garris/BackstopJS - v5.3.0) test but it seems like puppeteer still can’t find chrome.

Any help would really be appreaciated.

[markcellus]

Confirmed this is also happening for me