library not working in electron app

[SebastianBoehler]

The library works for me if I run my app via console but after packaging the electron app it wont anymore. Same for servers I am not able to run the library on servers.

[chill117]

Hello @YourSocialBot

This module uses puppeteer (runs a headless browser process) to scrape web pages. You will need to do some additional setup on your server(s) to make this module work:
https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md#running-puppeteer-in-the-cloud

As for running from an electron app, that I have never tried. Please try to run your electron app with the following environment variable:

DEBUG=data-sourcer:error cmd-to-run-your-electron-app

Errors related to the browser/puppeteer usage should then be printed to the console.

[SebastianBoehler]

Hey, thanks for the fast response!
How to set environment variables in electron? I have never worked with them.

[chill117]

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/environment-variables

[SebastianBoehler]

This only works for me if I run the unpackaged app.
And the libary works in electron but after packaging the app it wont.

[chill117]

I think it is possible to set environment variables for the packaged app and then check the log files.

[mifi]

FWIW there is a package puppeteer-in-electron which allows us to use an electron browser window in the running electron app as the puppeteer runner.

Not exactly the same, but I needed to run puppeteer in Electron and was able to solve it with that library. You can see how I solved it here:
https://github.com/mifi/SimpleInstaBot/blob/master/public/electron.js#L23

Maybe proxy-lists needs to pull puppeteer out as a peerDependency and accept the Page/Browser as an option for this to work however.