Install Puppeteer on MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon / M1

For those who wouldn't like to work outside the CLI.

Install Chromium via brew:

$ brew install chromium
$ `which chromium`

Set an environemntal variable to prevent [npm/yarn/pnpm] install downloading Chromium automatically (I'd put .env into the repo so coworkers with Apple Silicon can $ source .env .)

export PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true
export PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=`which chromium`

Although in some situations you need to patch Puppeteer since it has a hard-coded executable path to /usr/bin/chromium-browser, you can try an option of puppeteer.launch to overwrite it.

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    executablePath: process.env[‘PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH’],
})

References

• Installation fails on Apple Silicon / M1
• M1 MacBookでpuppeteerが動かない時の解決策
• M1 Macでpuppeteerを動かす方法（2020年12月21日時点）

Comments

[Alikhan Oitan]

Thank you! Your post helped me with the problem I had.
brew install --cask chromium --no-quarantine is better to not have issues opening chromium and actually use it. Also some people might need PUPPETEER_EXPERIMENTAL_CHROMIUM_MAC_ARM=true on their env file and during puppeteer installation.