I’m trying to deploy an application using Puppeteer with Docker, but I always get the same error: the browser is not found:

Error: Browser was not found at the configured executablePath (/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable)
throw new Error(`Browser was not found at the configured executablePath (${launchArgs.executablePath})`);

Even though I’m using the recommended image and modifying the browser path, I still get the same error. Is there anything I can do to deploy an application with Puppeteer using Docker? My application consists of using Puppeteer to generate PDFs, and it is built with NestJs.

Thank you!

I tried installing Chrome inside the container, referencing the official Puppeteer image, using puppeteer-core, but I always get the same error. Even when changing the executablePath, the error always remains the same, always referencing ‘/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable’.

Dockerfile:

# Base image
FROM ghcr.io/puppeteer/puppeteer:23.3.0

# Create app directory
WORKDIR /app

# A wildcard is used to ensure both package.json AND package-lock.json are copied
COPY package*.json ./

# Install app dependencies
RUN npm install

# Bundle app source
COPY . .

EXPOSE 4001
# Start the server using the production build
CMD ["npm", "run", "start:prod"]

Singleton of browser service:

  async onModuleInit() {
    const browserConfigs = {
      headless: true,
      args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'],
      browser: 'chrome',
    } as puppeteer.PuppeteerLaunchOptions;

    if (this.profile !== 'development') {
      browserConfigs.executablePath = '/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable)';
    }

    this.browser = await puppeteer.launch(browserConfigs);
    this.page = await this.browser.newPage();
    this.page.setDefaultTimeout(0);
    this.page.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(0);
  }

Puppeteer version: 23.3.0

I’m trying to deploy an application using Puppeteer with Docker, but I always get the same error: the browser is not found:

Error: Browser was not found at the configured executablePath (/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable)
throw new Error(`Browser was not found at the configured executablePath (${launchArgs.executablePath})`);

Even though I’m using the recommended image and modifying the browser path, I still get the same error. Is there anything I can do to deploy an application with Puppeteer using Docker? My application consists of using Puppeteer to generate PDFs, and it is built with NestJs.

Thank you!

I tried installing Chrome inside the container, referencing the official Puppeteer image, using puppeteer-core, but I always get the same error. Even when changing the executablePath, the error always remains the same, always referencing ‘/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable’.

Dockerfile:

# Base image
FROM ghcr.io/puppeteer/puppeteer:23.3.0

# Create app directory
WORKDIR /app

# A wildcard is used to ensure both package.json AND package-lock.json are copied
COPY package*.json ./

# Install app dependencies
RUN npm install

# Bundle app source
COPY . .

EXPOSE 4001
# Start the server using the production build
CMD ["npm", "run", "start:prod"]

Singleton of browser service:

  async onModuleInit() {
    const browserConfigs = {
      headless: true,
      args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'],
      browser: 'chrome',
    } as puppeteer.PuppeteerLaunchOptions;

    if (this.profile !== 'development') {
      browserConfigs.executablePath = '/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable)';
    }

    this.browser = await puppeteer.launch(browserConfigs);
    this.page = await this.browser.newPage();
    this.page.setDefaultTimeout(0);
    this.page.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(0);
  }

Puppeteer version: 23.3.0

• docker
• dockerfile
• puppeteer

1 Answer 1

This is happening because there is no google-chrome-stable inside the puppeteer docker image. To get the browser executable, you can simply use a nodejs script like below.

console.log(require('puppeteer').executablePath())

You can do the same for official docker image as per their documentation,

docker run -i --init --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN --rm \
 ghcr.io/puppeteer/puppeteer:latest \
 node -e "console.log(require('puppeteer').executablePath())"

This is going to print a location like below,

/home/pptruser/.cache/puppeteer/chrome/linux-131.0.6778.85/chrome-linux64/chrome

You do not have to provide any specific executablePath when using the official docker image. It's already installed there.