Running puppeteer during build

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Hi, I’m trying to use puppeteer during a build/deploy, and am getting the following error:

Failed to launch the browser process!
/opt/build/repo/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-809590/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libgbm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Is there support for installing the required dependencies of puppeteer?

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From what I have understood by reading Puppeteer docs, it’s supposed to run as an application (or a live script). If that’s the case indeed, I think, Netlify isn’t the service to run it on. That’s my guess, might be wrong.

I’ll update the thread if I find something else.

EDIT: As I expected, I was wrong. Turns out it is indeed possible as someone has tried it. Check here: Using Puppeteer on Netlify. Use Puppeteer to take screenshots of… | by Henrik Hauge Bjørnskov | Level Up Coding

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hey there, if you run this search, you’ll see all the other posts on puppeteer in these forums:

https://answers.netlify.com/search?expanded=true&q=puppeteer

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Thanks, selecting the build image ‘Ubuntu Xenial 16.04’ (which is now the default for new sites) resolved the issue.

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Do you have Puppeteer taking a screenshot as part of the build step? Do you have an example to look at by any chance (code)? Did you have to create a build plugin?

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Hey @silentfail,
Check out the article @hrishikesh linked a few posts up :arrow_up:

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Thanks. Was hoping to find a more complete example (assume this has to be packaged as a plugin, wasn’t planning on using Docker, etc)? Also, am I right in thinking there’s no persistent storage on Netlify (so you couldn’t run repeated builds and save a new screenshot each time to a directory… you’d need to save it off in a S3 bucket or something)?

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While we can’t provide a more specific guide, you may have more luck using the node module here: puppeteer - npm

Re: saving files, you can “abuse” our build cache to store files using plugins like this:

…but your build would STILL need to succeed if the cache isn’t there too, so better to save to an external service.

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Thank you. Will look at the Puppeteer node module; in my experience (probably because of timeouts), Puppeteer seems to be very particular on Netlify. I’ve tried updating it previously without success, so might stick with an older version.