Puppeteer timeout on specific website running on server cloud headless

January 28, 2021 by admin

I’ve made a node.js web scraper code that runs fine on my computer, however, when I deploy to my Google Cloud VM instance running Debian, it returns a timeout error for a specific website. I’ve tried many differnent setups for puppeteer, but none seems to work. I believe the website I’m trying to scrape is blocking my code when I run from the google cloud server, but not when I run from my computer. The scraping part is working fine on my computer. Puppeteer finds the HTML tags and retrieve the info.

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const GoogleSpreadsheet = require('google-spreadsheet');
const { promisify } = require('util');
const credentials = require('./credentials.json');

async function main(){

    const scrapCopasa = await scrapCopasaFunction();

    console.log('Done!')

}



async function scrapCopasaFunction() {

    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
        args: ['--no-sandbox'], 
    });
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    //await page.setDefaultNavigationTimeout(0);
    //await page.setViewport({width: 1366, height: 768});
    await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36');
    await page.goto('http://www.copasa.com.br/wps/portal/internet/abastecimento-de-agua/nivel-dos-reservatorios');
    //await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 5000));
    
    let isUsernameNotFound = await page.evaluate(() => {
        if(document.getElementsByClassName('h2')[0]) {
            if(document.getElementsByTagName('h2')[0].textContent == "Sorry, this page isn't available.") {
                return true;
            }
        }
    });

    if(isUsernameNotFound) {
        console.log('Account not exists!');        
        await browser.close();
        return;
    }


    let reservoirLevelsCopasa = await page.evaluate(() => {
        const tds = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('table tr td'))
        return tds.map(td => td.innerText)        
    });


    const riomanso = reservoirLevelsCopasa[13].replace(",",".").substring(0,5);
    const serraazul = reservoirLevelsCopasa[17].replace(",",".").substring(0,5);
    const vargemdasflores = reservoirLevelsCopasa[21].replace(",",".").substring(0,5);

    await browser.close();

    return[riomanso, serraazul, vargemdasflores];

}



main();

And error that I’m getting is the following:

(node:6425) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TimeoutError: Navigation Timeout Exceeded: 30000ms exceeded
    at /home/xxx/reservoirs/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/LifecycleWatcher.js:142:21
    at async FrameManager.navigateFrame (/home/xxx/reservoirs/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/FrameManager.js:94:17)
    at async Frame.goto (/home/xxx/reservoirs/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/FrameManager.js:406:12)
    at async Page.goto (/home/xxx/reservoirs/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Page.js:674:12)
    at async scrapCopasaFunction (/home/xxx/reservoirs/reservatorios.js:129:5)
    at async main (/home/xxx/reservoirs/reservatorios.js:9:25)
  -- ASYNC --
    at Frame.<anonymous> (/home/xxx/reservoirs/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/helper.js:111:15)
    at Page.goto (/home/xxx/reservoirs/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Page.js:674:49)
    at Page.<anonymous> (/home/xxx/reservoirs/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/helper.js:112:23)
    at scrapCopasaFunction (/home/xxx/reservoirs/reservatorios.js:129:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
    at async main (/home/xxx/reservoirs/reservatorios.js:9:25)
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:6425) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async f
unction without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled
 promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode)
. (rejection id: 1)
(node:6425) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not ha
ndled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.