Railway•13mo ago

Puppeteer could not find Chrome

I'm trying to get puppeteer working on railway but it's having some issues. My package.json and nixpacks are attached. This is my launch code. VITE_CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH is just set if i'm local.

    let puppeteerConfig = { headless: "new" }
    if (getConfig("VITE_CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH")) {
      puppeteerConfig['defaultViewport'] = null;
      puppeteerConfig['executablePath'] = getConfig("VITE_CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH");
    } else {
      // https://github.com/ryannono/Puppeteer-Railway-Buildpack#puppeteer-nixpacks-buildpack
      puppeteerConfig['args'] = ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']
      puppeteerConfig['ignoreDefaultArgs'] = ['--disable-extensions']
    }
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch(puppeteerConfig)

    let puppeteerConfig = { headless: "new" }
    if (getConfig("VITE_CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH")) {
      puppeteerConfig['defaultViewport'] = null;
      puppeteerConfig['executablePath'] = getConfig("VITE_CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH");
    } else {
      // https://github.com/ryannono/Puppeteer-Railway-Buildpack#puppeteer-nixpacks-buildpack
      puppeteerConfig['args'] = ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']
      puppeteerConfig['ignoreDefaultArgs'] = ['--disable-extensions']
    }
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch(puppeteerConfig)

Any help greatly appreciated!

nixpacks.toml

package.json

9 Replies

Percy•13mo ago

Project ID: 78e4a2e3-df1d-418a-9e20-32b2f40b45f5

jjm447OP•13mo ago

Project id is 78e4a2e3-df1d-418a-9e20-32b2f40b45f5

Brody•13mo ago

may I ask what you are using puppeteer for?

jjm447OP•13mo ago

Yes, I'm parsing online article information from the dom to help create citations

Brody•13mo ago

do these online articles allow web scraping?

jjm447OP•13mo ago

Yeah

Brody•13mo ago

would you mind showing me where they've stated that they allow web scraping? because web scraping / crawling is listed in railways tos, so if the sites you're scraping doesn't allow it, we won't be able to provide support for this usecase

jjm447OP•13mo ago

Gotcha makes sense. I'm trying to find some explicit allowance, give me some time

Brody•13mo ago

no worries

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Puppeteer could not find Chrome