My Puppeteer script is running in headless mode and it's timing out.

I'm not sure exactly what's going wrong. The script runs fine locally, but when I'm running in headless mode it always times out.

I've read online that could be due to the script failing to load an external javascript source? Has anyone else run into this problem, and able to help out?

Here's my setup function for my Puppeteer instance:

 setUpPuppeteer: async () => {
    const headless = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production";
    const browser = await pupeteer.launch({
      headless,
      devtools: true,
      args: ['--no-sandbox' ]
    });
    const context = await browser.createIncognitoBrowserContext();
    const page = await context.newPage(); // Create new instance of puppet

    page.on('error', err => {
      logger.error('Puppeteer error.', err);
    });

    page.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(10000);

    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
      await page.setRequestInterception(true); // Optimize (no stylesheets, images)...
      page.on('request', request => {
        if (['image', 'stylesheet'].includes(request.resourceType())) {
          request.abort();
        } else {
          request.continue();
        }
      });
    }

    return {browser: context, page};
  },

My Puppeteer script is running in headless mode and it's timing out.

I'm not sure exactly what's going wrong. The script runs fine locally, but when I'm running in headless mode it always times out.

I've read online that could be due to the script failing to load an external javascript source? Has anyone else run into this problem, and able to help out?

Here's my setup function for my Puppeteer instance:

 setUpPuppeteer: async () => {
    const headless = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production";
    const browser = await pupeteer.launch({
      headless,
      devtools: true,
      args: ['--no-sandbox' ]
    });
    const context = await browser.createIncognitoBrowserContext();
    const page = await context.newPage(); // Create new instance of puppet

    page.on('error', err => {
      logger.error('Puppeteer error.', err);
    });

    page.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(10000);

    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
      await page.setRequestInterception(true); // Optimize (no stylesheets, images)...
      page.on('request', request => {
        if (['image', 'stylesheet'].includes(request.resourceType())) {
          request.abort();
        } else {
          request.continue();
        }
      });
    }

    return {browser: context, page};
  },

• javascript
• timeout
• puppeteer
• google-chrome-headless

Share Improve this question Follow edited Jan 25, 2020 at 19:50 Harrison Cramer asked Jan 25, 2020 at 19:13 Harrison CramerHarrison Cramer 4,5361111 gold badges3939 silver badges7474 bronze badges 1

• if devtools is true, the headless option will get set to false. set the devtools to false and try again. – mbit Commented Jan 26, 2020 at 2:32

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setUpPuppeteer: async () => {
    const headless = process.env.NODE_ENV === "production";
    const browser = await pupeteer.launch({
      headless: true,
      devtools: true,
      args: [
        '--ignore-certificate-errors',
        '--no-sandbox',
        '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
        '--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas',
        '--disable-gpu'
            ]
    });
    const context = await browser.createIncognitoBrowserContext();
    const page = await context.newPage(); // Create new instance of puppet

    page.on('error', err => {
      logger.error('Puppeteer error.', err);
    });

    page.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(10000);

    if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
      await page.setRequestInterception(true); // Optimize (no stylesheets, images)...
      page.on('request', request => {
        if (['image', 'stylesheet'].includes(request.resourceType())) {
          request.abort();
        } else {
          request.continue();
        }
      });
    }

    return {browser: context, page};
  },