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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]

@mazyaf
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mazyaf commented Jan 10, 2021

does this work on 32 bit arm devices?

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

@lumos675
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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

@rishabhrpg
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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

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

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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 chromium@3.11
Install log 

localhost:~# uname -m
armv7l
localhost:~# echo @3.11 http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/community >> /etc/apk/repositories
localhost:~# apk add chromium@3.11
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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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
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Thanks i will try this

@mauro199304
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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.

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@mauro199304 I experienced the same problem, just wondering if you founf a solityion to this error ENOENT

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