Error: Failed to launch the browser process! Whatsapp web js

BJCoder
July 15, 2022
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2 votes
3 Answers

I am trying to use Whatsapp web js and it’s working fine in my localhost but when I am trying to push in Azure Linux Hosting, I am getting this error.

/node_modules/whatsapp-web.js/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:241
            reject(new Error([
                   ^

Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
/node_modules/whatsapp-web.js/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-982053/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

    at onClose (/node_modules/whatsapp-web.js/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:241:20)
    at Interface.<anonymous> (/node_modules/whatsapp-web.js/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:231:68)
    at Interface.emit (node:events:402:35)
    at Interface.close (node:readline:586:8)
    at Socket.onend (node:readline:277:10)
    at Socket.emit (node:events:402:35)
    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1343:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~start: Failed to exec start script
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `node app.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm timing npm Completed in 105615ms

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2022-07-15T12_45_52_651Z-debug.log

My package json file below:

Node > 16.0 
NPM > 8.0
whatsapp-web.js": "^1.15.8"
"puppeteer": "^12.0.1"

Answers

- Venkatesan
- July 18, 2022 at 10:01 am
- 0 votes
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Error: Failed to launch the browser process!
/node_modules/whatsappweb.js/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-982053/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Whatsapp-web.js is highly unstable .Please try to uninstall whatsapp-web.js dependency from package.json and reinstall it again.
1. Install updates
```
sudo apt-get update -y then -> sudo apt install -y libatk-bridge2.0-0 && sudo apt install -y libxkbcommon-x11-0 && sudo apt-get install -y libxdamage-dev
```
2. Install Chromium-browser.
```
  sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
```
3. Install other dependencies required for ubuntu
```
      sudo apt-get install gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 li-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 li libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget libgbm-dev
```
As whatsapp-web.js is continually being updated, installing more dependencies could be necessary by the time and also check with docker file build in steps which were said by @thedavidbarton.

Reference:
node.js – Error: Failed to launch the browser process puppeteer – Stack Overflow
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- MalayPatra
- August 11, 2022 at 7:08 am
- 0 votes
0
As per th documentation for a non GUI environment,e.g. Linux,Ubuntu etc, you must need to follow some steps to get puppeteer working fine.
Setps:
1. First make sure your packages are up to date. sudo apt-get update
2. Then install some additional packages
$ sudo apt install -y gconf-service libgbm-dev libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget
1. Now there is some arguments you need to specify to launch the browser. Add this agr while launching --no-sandbox also add --disable-setuid-sandbox if you don’t have root privilege. Your code shoule loook like –
index.js
```
new Client({
    ...,
    puppeteer: {
        args: [
          '--no-sandbox',
          '--disable-setuid-sandbox'
        ],
        authStrategy: // what ever authStrategy you are using
    }
})
```
1. Yep you are done !!
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- SAMUELNZOMO
- November 19, 2022 at 9:03 am
- 0 votes
0
it only works best on windows.

solution:

use windows initialize the project (create your own boiler plate)
steps:
```
mkdir whatapp_bot
cd  whatapp_bot
npm init -y
npm i whatsapp-web.js 
```
incase of chromium issue :
```
node node_modules/puppeteer/install.js
```
if all is successfull, transfer whatapp_bot folder together with its node_modules to linux ubuntu computer

it worked for me 💯 💯 💯
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