Puppeteer script to download latest edition of Le Monde Diplomatique (epub)

mondeDiploGrabber.js

// Requires npm, puppeteer, chromium
// One line installer (debian): ```sudo apt install chromium-browser npm && npm i puppeteer-core```
// launch with ```node mondeDiploGrabber.js```
// Files will be put in the download folder

// tested on raspbian with node v12.18^

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

(async () => {
  //starting puppeteer, user agent and window-size are mandatory in headless mode otherwise the download links aren't populated on the page
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ executablePath: 'chromium-browser',
    headless: true,
    args: [
      '--window-size=1920,1080',
      '--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36"'
    ]
  });
  const page = await browser.newPage();

  // visit monde-diplomatique and login
  await page.goto('https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/');
  await page.click('#session_connexion');
  await page.waitForSelector('input[name=mot_de_passe]');
  await page.type('#identification_sso > ul > li > input[name=email]', 'youremail@provider.com');
  await page.type('#identification_sso > ul > li > input[name=mot_de_passe]', 'password');
  await page.click('#identification_sso > ul > li > input[type=submit]');
  await page.waitForNavigation();
  console.log("login successful")
  
  //Go to download page and click download button
  await page.goto('https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/telechargements/');
  await page.waitForSelector('.epub > .bouton_telecharger');
  await page._client.send('Page.setDownloadBehavior', { behavior: 'allow', downloadPath: './downloads' });
  await page.click('.epub > .bouton_telecharger');

  // waiting to make sur download is complete
  await page.waitFor(10000);
  browser.close()
  console.log('job done')
})();