Puppeteer doesn't return page content on Ubuntu xenial (hosted with Scaleway)
I have been setting up a discord bot that can get facts about cats (don't bother worrying why) and to do this i'm getting the facts from a website that generates the random facts with js everytime someone visits. So to get this information I used puppeteer which works fine when its run through the Visual Studio Code terminal.
However, because I want this bot to constantly be running I bought a server that can keep the info for the bot and keep it running (this server is running Ubuntu Xenial). This is where the problems start. First of all I couldn't run puppeteer without args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']. Although, this is a big security risk I just wanted to get something working so I settled. The problem is: this code still works in the Visual Studio terminal and I receive the page info but on the server a blank line is returned.
const ch = require("cheerio");
const pp = require("puppeteer");
const url = "http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/cat-facts/";
var randomFact;
// the below is a promise items will return out of sync
pp
.launch({headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'], ignoreHTTPSErrors: true, dumpio: false})
.then(function(browser) {
console.log("1");
return browser.newPage();
})
.then(function(page) {
console.log("2");
return page.goto(url).then(function() {
console.log("3");
return page.content().catch();
});
})
.then(function(html) {
randomFact = ch(".global-body-text.description", html).text();
console.log(ch(".global-body-text.description", html));
console.log("4");
console.log(randomFact);
})
.catch(function(err) {
console.log("Page not found (" + url + ")");
});
The above is the code I used. If there is anything I should be doing to make it work on the server please let me know.
node.js ubuntu puppeteer
asked Dec 28 '18 at 21:14
RavenRaven
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I have been setting up a discord bot that can get facts about cats (don't bother worrying why) and to do this i'm getting the facts from a website that generates the random facts with js everytime someone visits. So to get this information I used puppeteer which works fine when its run through the Visual Studio Code terminal.
However, because I want this bot to constantly be running I bought a server that can keep the info for the bot and keep it running (this server is running Ubuntu Xenial). This is where the problems start. First of all I couldn't run puppeteer without args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']. Although, this is a big security risk I just wanted to get something working so I settled. The problem is: this code still works in the Visual Studio terminal and I receive the page info but on the server a blank line is returned.
const ch = require("cheerio");
const pp = require("puppeteer");
const url = "http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/cat-facts/";
var randomFact;
// the below is a promise items will return out of sync
pp
.launch({headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'], ignoreHTTPSErrors: true, dumpio: false})
.then(function(browser) {
console.log("1");
return browser.newPage();
})
.then(function(page) {
console.log("2");
return page.goto(url).then(function() {
console.log("3");
return page.content().catch();
});
})
.then(function(html) {
randomFact = ch(".global-body-text.description", html).text();
console.log(ch(".global-body-text.description", html));
console.log("4");
console.log(randomFact);
})
.catch(function(err) {
console.log("Page not found (" + url + ")");
});
The above is the code I used. If there is anything I should be doing to make it work on the server please let me know.
node.js ubuntu puppeteer
asked Dec 28 '18 at 21:14
RavenRaven
84
add a comment |
I have been setting up a discord bot that can get facts about cats (don't bother worrying why) and to do this i'm getting the facts from a website that generates the random facts with js everytime someone visits. So to get this information I used puppeteer which works fine when its run through the Visual Studio Code terminal.
However, because I want this bot to constantly be running I bought a server that can keep the info for the bot and keep it running (this server is running Ubuntu Xenial). This is where the problems start. First of all I couldn't run puppeteer without args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']. Although, this is a big security risk I just wanted to get something working so I settled. The problem is: this code still works in the Visual Studio terminal and I receive the page info but on the server a blank line is returned.
const ch = require("cheerio");
const pp = require("puppeteer");
const url = "http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/cat-facts/";
var randomFact;
// the below is a promise items will return out of sync
pp
.launch({headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'], ignoreHTTPSErrors: true, dumpio: false})
.then(function(browser) {
console.log("1");
return browser.newPage();
})
.then(function(page) {
console.log("2");
return page.goto(url).then(function() {
console.log("3");
return page.content().catch();
});
})
.then(function(html) {
randomFact = ch(".global-body-text.description", html).text();
console.log(ch(".global-body-text.description", html));
console.log("4");
console.log(randomFact);
})
.catch(function(err) {
console.log("Page not found (" + url + ")");
});
The above is the code I used. If there is anything I should be doing to make it work on the server please let me know.
node.js ubuntu puppeteer
asked Dec 28 '18 at 21:14
RavenRaven
84
I have been setting up a discord bot that can get facts about cats (don't bother worrying why) and to do this i'm getting the facts from a website that generates the random facts with js everytime someone visits. So to get this information I used puppeteer which works fine when its run through the Visual Studio Code terminal.
However, because I want this bot to constantly be running I bought a server that can keep the info for the bot and keep it running (this server is running Ubuntu Xenial). This is where the problems start. First of all I couldn't run puppeteer without args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']. Although, this is a big security risk I just wanted to get something working so I settled. The problem is: this code still works in the Visual Studio terminal and I receive the page info but on the server a blank line is returned.
const ch = require("cheerio");
const pp = require("puppeteer");
const url = "http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/cat-facts/";
var randomFact;
// the below is a promise items will return out of sync
pp
.launch({headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'], ignoreHTTPSErrors: true, dumpio: false})
.then(function(browser) {
console.log("1");
return browser.newPage();
})
.then(function(page) {
console.log("2");
return page.goto(url).then(function() {
console.log("3");
return page.content().catch();
});
})
.then(function(html) {
randomFact = ch(".global-body-text.description", html).text();
console.log(ch(".global-body-text.description", html));
console.log("4");
console.log(randomFact);
})
.catch(function(err) {
console.log("Page not found (" + url + ")");
});
The above is the code I used. If there is anything I should be doing to make it work on the server please let me know.
node.js ubuntu puppeteer
node.js ubuntu puppeteer
asked Dec 28 '18 at 21:14
RavenRaven
84
asked Dec 28 '18 at 21:14
RavenRaven
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asked Dec 28 '18 at 21:14
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asked Dec 28 '18 at 21:14
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