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Run puppeteer inside termux

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Run Puppeteer inside termux

Assumptions

You have termux installed and have sufficient permissions
You have loggedin as root user
You are okay with running Puppeteer inside a container (Alpine)

Gotchas

There is no build of Google Chrome available for ARM at this moment, so using chromium instead.
Installing chromium on Termux directly requires snap which is another big hurdle so alternively using alpine distro here.

Steps

proot-distro install alpine
proot-distro login alpine
apk update && apk add --no-cache nmap && \
  echo @edge http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community >> /etc/apk/repositories && \
  echo @edge http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main >> /etc/apk/repositories && \
  apk update && \
  apk add --no-cache \
  chromium
git clone https://github.com/rishabhrpg/puppeteer-on-termux.git
cd puppeteer-on-termux
yarn
node index.js

If you see a message "screenshot saved" then puppeteer is successfully configured to run on termux
Use repo puppeteer-on-termux as starting point as it has correct args included to sucesfully run chromium on termux

This tutoraial has been moved here [https://github.com/rishabhrpg/puppeteer-on-termux]

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rishabhrpg commented Jan 10, 2021

You can try if there is a chromium binary available it should work.

lumos675 commented Jan 12, 2021

Is there anyway to use termux and pupeteer in a standalone project without need to download termux on the device and within the project itself

Author

rishabhrpg commented Jan 13, 2021

Is there anyway to use termux and pupeteer in a standalone project without need to download termux on the device and within the project itself

Termux APP is open source Termux App
You can try to package termux and puppeteer

lumos675 commented Jan 13, 2021

Is there anyway to use termux and pupeteer in a standalone project without need to download termux on the device and within the project itself

Termux APP is open source Termux App
You can try to package termux and puppeteer

I was thinking if i can include these 2 packages inside an android project without root the possibilities could be endless when it comes to web automation..but i feel like i still need alot to learn but i am working on it

fahadali32 commented May 29, 2021

My device name is xioami arm71 i installed alpine but can't install chromium how to install it? Your command is not working

SnwMds commented Sep 11, 2021 •

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@mazyaf, @fahadali32

There is no armv7 build of Chromium in the current @edge repository of Alphine. You need to switch to a older repo release:

echo @3.11 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/community >> /etc/apk/repositories
apk add [email protected]

Install log


localhost:~# uname -m
armv7l
localhost:~# echo @3.11 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/community >> /etc/apk/repositories
localhost:~# apk add [email protected]
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.14/main/armv7/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.14/community/armv7/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/community/armv7/APKINDEX.tar.gz
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OK: 237 MiB in 128 packages
localhost:~# chromium-browser --version
Chromium 81.0.4044.113

Since we are installing from a older repo release, we will get an outdated version of Chromium, sadly.

Also, you may need to install a patched version of proot due to this issue, otherwise you will get Segmentation fault when attempting to call chromium-browser,

md-fahad-ali32 commented Sep 11, 2021

Thanks i will try this

mauro199304 commented Jan 28, 2022

Error: Failed to launch the browser process! spawn /root/puppeteer-on-termux/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-818858/chrome-linux/chrome ENOENT
I have this error when executing the test script that comes in the repository.