Ubuntu 18.04 Headless Chrome Node API - Puppeteer - Installation Guide
See original GitHub issueI ran sudo npm i puppeteer on Ubuntu 18.04
Sample Script
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
(async () => {
const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('https://example.com');
await page.screenshot({path: 'example.png'});
await browser.close();
})();
Error
(node:23835) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Chromium revision is not downloaded. Run "npm install" or "yarn install"
at Launcher.launch (/var/www/puppeteer/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:112:15)
at <anonymous>
(node:23835) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:23835) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
Node v8.10.0
Fix for Above Error sudo npm install --unsafe-perm
New Error Below
(node:25272) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Failed to launch chrome!
/var/www/puppeteer/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-594312/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libX11-xcb.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Fix new Error with
gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget
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Based on https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer
You only have to run the following command in Ubuntu 18.04
Unfortunately this is not enough.
You will require the following Dependencies
After which if you run it as per their example , you will receive an error
The solution to this is
Adding --no-sandbox
It will work accordingly then. The full working source code is below