Install a Firefox browser binary for Puppeteer in Docker - node.js

Question

I'm trying to run a script with a dependency of https://github.com/pevers/images-scraper in a Docker container. I can run the script on its own (on my machine which has Node 14.15.4, doing node src/index.js which will yield the console outout of A), but in the context of docker it is not working - I am getting an error message about a missing Firefox binary.
Dockerfile:
FROM node:14
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm install
RUN PUPPETEER_PRODUCT=firefox npm install puppeteer
COPY . .
CMD [ "node", "src/index.js" ]
src/index.js:
let Scraper = require("images-scraper");
const google = new Scraper({
puppeteer: {
userAgent:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0",
headless: true,
safe: true,
},
});
(async () => {
const A = await google.scrape("bananas", 200);
console.log(A)
})();
package.json
{
"name": "test",
"version": "1.0.0",
"scripts": {
"test": "node src/index.js"
},
"dependencies": {
"images-scraper": "^6.2.1"
}
}
When I /bin/bash into my container and do node src/index.js I get the error:
at ChromeLauncher.launch (/usr/src/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/Launcher.js:79:23)
at async GoogleScraper.scrape (/usr/src/app/node_modules/images-scraper/src/google/scraper.js:53:21)
at async /usr/src/app/src/index.js:19:13
New to using Node with Docker - I was wondering where I am going wrong here. Thanks

Answer 1

Install firefox execution for your container:
FROM node:14
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y wget gnupg fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-freefont-ttf firefox-esr --no-install-recommends \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm install
RUN PUPPETEER_PRODUCT=firefox npm install puppeteer
COPY . .
CMD [ "node", "src/index.js" ]

Answer 2

the error state that there is errors by running chrome not Firefox ....
so make sure that you have all chrome dependencies installed in your Container:
ca-certificates
fonts-liberation
libappindicator3-1
libasound2
libatk-bridge2.0-0
libatk1.0-0
libc6
libcairo2
libcups2
libdbus-1-3
libexpat1
libfontconfig1
libgbm1
libgcc1
libglib2.0-0
libgtk-3-0
libnspr4
libnss3
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
lsb-release
wget
xdg-utils
source : Here

Answer 3

Following on from #LinPy's comment, adapting my Dockerfile per the puppeteer documentation worked:
FROM alpine:edge
# Installs latest Chromium (89) package.
RUN apk add --no-cache \
chromium \
nss \
freetype \
freetype-dev \
harfbuzz \
ca-certificates \
ttf-freefont \
nodejs \
nodejs-npm \
yarn
# Tell Puppeteer to skip installing Chrome. We'll be using the installed package.
ENV PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true \
PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium-browser
# Puppeteer v6.0.0 works with Chromium 89.
RUN yarn add puppeteer#6.0.0
...
As well I added args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'] to the Scraper constructor. Thanks