Puppeteer 1.17 not compatible with node alpine anymore

Steps to reproduce

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: 1.17.0

• Platform / OS version: Docker version 18.03.1-ce, build 9ee9f40 with Docker image node:10.16-alpine

• Node.js version: 10.16.3

What steps will reproduce the problem?

Our docker image have chrome 73 but apparently Puppeteer 1.17 is not able to dialog with chromium 73 or not completely but i cant found why …

My dockerfile is the following :

FROM node:10.16-alpine

# Environnement de build de l'image
ARG NODE_ENV

RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app

# Installs make, g++, python and Chromium (73) packages.
RUN apk update && apk upgrade && \
        echo @3.10 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/community >> /etc/apk/repositories && \
        echo @3.10 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/main >> /etc/apk/repositories && \
        apk add --no-cache \
        chromium@3.10=~73.0.3683.103 \
        nss@3.10 \
        freetype@3.10 \
        freetype@3.10 \
        harfbuzz@3.10 \
        ttf-freefont@3.10

# Tell Puppeteer to skip installing Chrome. We'll be using the installed package.
ENV PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD true

COPY package.json ./
RUN npm install

# On installe cross-env seulement en environnement de test
RUN if [ "${NODE_ENV}" = "test" ]; then echo "installing cross-env" && npm install cross-env; fi
 
COPY . .
 
EXPOSE 3000
ENTRYPOINT [ "npm" ]
CMD ["run", "prod"]

The part of my which is crashing is the following :

        this.logger.info("Puppeter launch")
        const browser = await puppeteer.launch(puppeteerParams);
        this.logger.info("Puppeter launched successfully")
        const page = await browser.newPage();
        await page.setContent(html);
        const pdf = await page.pdf({ format: 'A4' });
        this.logger.info("pdf generated")

My logs are the following :

2019-09-30T14:18:02.985Z [CORE] [/test] info: Puppeter launch
2019-09-30T14:18:03.133Z [CORE] [/test] info: Puppeter launched successfully
2019-09-30T14:18:03.308Z [CORE] [/test] error: 500 - b6a03eaf11bc4c669433d067418b5165 - Protocol error (IO.read): Invalid parameters handle: string value expected - /test - GET- 127.0.0.1

[ouraios]

Okay i found out what was the problem, in my package.json i had the following : "puppeteer": "^1.12.2" it means that it will be the last 1.x.x version being updated but it will stay "puppeteer": "^1.12.2" in the json but will currently instal 1.20.0.

To not have to update at each update when it breaks we fixed our version by doing so :

• npm uninstall puppeteer
• npm i puppeteer@1.12.2

And our Dockerfile contain the following : Becareful you’ll have to manually update to the latest stable version, periodically

RUN apk update && apk upgrade && \
    echo @3.10 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/community >> /etc/apk/repositories && \
    echo @3.10 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.10/main >> /etc/apk/repositories && \
    apk add --no-cache \
      make \
      g++ \
      python \
      harfbuzz@3.10 \
      freetype@3.10 \
      nss@3.10 \
      chromium@3.10=~73.0.3683.103

[Lucien-X]

I encountered the same issue , while using Aliyun Functional Compute Service, which is using nodejs v10.

Higher version of puppeteer is incompatable with that. So I downgrade my puppeteer-core to v1.16.0 . Works like magic ~ 🎉