Add the two module files into your extensions/server_connect/modules folder.The system I am running on, which is the only system I have checked this module with, is a Docker container running Node v14 server. Get a quick rundown on EJS templating language. For now, you can find the 2 module files below plus the example EJS template that you’ll see the output of further down. I’ll eventually get around to adding a GIT repository with a demo project when I can find the time. You will need to add Puppeteer to your project and allow it to download the required version of Chromium it needs to run. Then came the issues on how to secure the login information or session cookies to automate this process.

My first thought, when using module was to plug my routes into Puppeteer, however, along with this came the problems of security enforcers forcing Puppeteer to login in (which is correct, because Puppeteer is another browser instance, thus, another session).

The reasoning here was to make it easier to generate a bank of EJS templates that you could visually build, add JSON data to, and dynamically generate the resulting HTML. puppeteerrc.cjs (or and foremost, a lot of credit has to go to Their module for HTML to PDF was the basis of this one. Puppeteer uses several defaults that can be customized through configurationįor example, to change the default cache directory Puppeteer uses to installīrowsers, you can add a. Include $HOME/.cache into the project's deployment.įor a version of Puppeteer without the browser installation, see Your project folder (see an example below) because not all hosting providers Heroku, you might need to reconfigure the location of the cache to be within If you deploy a project using Puppeteer to a hosting provider, such as Render or The browser is downloaded to the $HOME/.cache/puppeteer folderīy default (starting with Puppeteer v19.0.0). When you install Puppeteer, it automatically downloads a recent version ofĬhrome for Testing (~170MB macOS, ~282MB Linux, ~280MB Windows) that is guaranteed to

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