WECHATY-PUPPET-PUPPETEER

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Wechaty Puppet for Puppeteer

• This repository is a sub module of Wechaty. See: https://github.com/Chatie/wechaty-puppet-puppeteer/issues/1
• Source code before moved to here can be found at Wechaty repository: Wechaty/src/puppet-puppeteer#a2c56e6

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

1. WeChat Account that registered after 2017 mignt not be able to login Web Wechat, so it can not use PuppetPuppeteer with Wechaty. Please make sure your WeChat Account can be able to login by visiting https://wx.qq.com
2. Web API can not create room and invite members to room since 2018.
3. Can not Receive/Send message from Work Wechat.

If you want to break the above limitations, please consider to use a Wechaty Puppet other than using Web API, like wechaty-puppet-padchat.

Learn more about the Puppet at Wechaty wiki: Puppet

Note for Developers in China

Cause storage.googleapis.com is blocked in mainland china, you'd better config by following guide.

1. Linux & Mac

PUPPETEER_DOWNLOAD_HOST=https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors npm install wechaty-puppet-puppeteer

2. Windows

SET PUPPETEER_DOWNLOAD_HOST=https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors npm install wechaty-puppet-puppeteer

Learn more from https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/1597#issuecomment-351945645

How to set puppeteer launchOptions?

An example of adding executablePath to puppeteer.launch():

const bot = new Wechaty({
  name: 'mybot',
  puppet: 'wechaty-puppet-puppeteer',
  // ...
  puppetOptions: {
    endpoint: '<executablePath>'
  }
});

// or
const bot = new Wechaty({
  name: 'mybot',
  puppet: 'wechaty-puppet-puppeteer',
  // ...
  puppetOptions: {
    launchOptions: {
      executablePath: '<executablePath>',
      // ... others launchOptions, see: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/v1.18.1/docs/api.md#puppeteerlaunchoptions
    }
  }
});

We use stealth to make puppeteer more like a normal browser, if you want to disabled it, just set the WECHATY_PUPPET_PUPPETEER_STEALTHLESS environment variable to 1. eg. WECHATY_PUPPET_PUPPETEER_STEALTHLESS=1 ts-node your-bot.ts

puppetOptions

Option	value	default value	description
endpoint	string	-	puppeteerlaunchoptions.executablePath
head	boolean	false	puppeteerlaunchoptions.headless
launchOptions	object	-	same to puppeteerlaunchoptions
stealthless	boolean	false	disabled puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth or not

HISTORY

master

v0.24 (Feb 20, 2021)

1. Puppeteer from v5 to v7
2. Upgrade other deps

v0.22 (Jun 18, 2020)

Release a version before upgrade.

v0.14 (Aug, 2018)

1. First Stable Release
2. Follow latest typings

v0.2 (May, 2018)

1. Promote to solo package: wechaty-puppet-puppeteer

FAQ

1. chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You need to be able to run chrome in your Linux environment. If you are using Ubuntu Linux:

sudo apt-get install libxss1

See: https://github.com/Chatie/wechaty/issues/1152

AUTHOR

Huan LI <[e-mail]>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

• Code & Docs © 2016-2019 Huan LI <[e-mail]>
• Code released under the Apache-2.0 License
• Docs released under Creative Commons