The problem is I haven't found any Puppeteer configuration I can use for such purpose. Force my users to download Chromium at runtime (at first usage for example).To skip the download, download into another path, or download a different browser, see Environment variables. Download Chromium selectively at packaging time (still on dev machine) To use Puppeteer in your project, run: npm i puppeteer or 'yarn add puppeteer' Note: When you install Puppeteer, it downloads a recent version of Chromium (170MB Mac, 282MB Linux, 280MB Win) that is guaranteed to work with the API.Download all-platform Chromium when npm install (on dev machine).I should be able to do one of the following: Being current platform Linux, this very version of Chromium is then shipped regardlessly on every platform's app. The problem is: Chromium is downloaded at npm install time, and it's done selectively based on the current platform.

It works nice-and-smooth except for this issue:Ĭhromium is not downloaded exception is thrown when the app is executed on a platform different than the one the app has been packaged on.īetter said, I'm developing on a Linux environment and I'm packaging my app for both Linux and Windows, Linux app works fine, Windows app doesn't. I'm building a UI-automator with Puppeteer and I'm shipping it as a Electron-packaged app.

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