a year ago
I have an application built with Nuxt 3 and I want to export PDF files. For this I have installed Puppetter, locally it works fine, but when I deploy to railway and make a request to the API it returns the following error:
Chrome could not be found (ver. 119.0.6045.105). This can happen if: either 1. you have not performed an installation before running the script (e.g. npm install) or 2. your cache path is configured incorrectly (which is: /root/.cache/puppeteer).For (2), see our guide on configuring puppeteer at https://pptr.dev/guides/configuration.
Do I need to do any extra configuration?
5 Replies
a year ago
Make sure your dependency is puppeteer and not puppeteer-core as puppeteer-core will not automatically install Chrome
a year ago
Yes, my dependency is "puppeteer": "^21.3.6"
I launch with this snipped.
const browser = await launch({ headless: 'new' })
I also try with:
args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'],
ignoreDefaultArgs: ['--disable-extensions'],
but doesn't works
a year ago
{ headless: true } also does not work
a year ago
I'm facing the some issue while using html-pdf-node. It works properly on my local machine, but I encounter the following error when running it on Railway:
ERROR [ExceptionsHandler] Failed to launch the browser process!
error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
I attempted to install libnss3 in the Docker environment, but unfortunately, the same error persists.
a year ago
I would highly recommend using Browserless, using it means you don't have to install Chrome and all of its needed dependencies into your container or deal with any of the issues involved in that, and this will significantly speed up both the build and the publishing stage.
You can use it with puppeteer to generate PDFs.
puppeteer's PDF documentation here - https://pptr.dev/api/puppeteer.page.pdf
Browserless template here - https://railway.app/template/browserless
Example using puppeteer with browserless here - https://github.com/brody192/puppeteer-example