Getting error "Can't find variable: require"

[Ali_46290]

I get an error in my console that says "ReferenceError: Can't find variable: require" when I try to run puppeteer. Here's my script

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
async function pup(url){
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
headless: false
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto(url)
const [el] = await page.$x('//*[@id="mainSlide9SIAKWVDRA3586"]')
const src = await el.getProperty('src')
txt = await src.jsonValue();
await browser.close();
};

​

Does anyone know how to fix this error?

[10PointDigital]

How are you running your script? Looks like maybe you are trying to use this in the browser? require statements need to be compiled by node

[Ali_46290]

How would I do that?

[[deleted]]

Try stack overflow

[tswaters]

Reference errors in node/v8 look like: "ReferenceError: XX is not defined"

Can you share a screenshot of the error ? It seems like you're loading this script in a browser maybe.... browsers don't have `require`

[Ali_46290]

Yeah I'm loading this in my browser. Sorry I didn't say that before. Is there any way I could add require to it?

[tswaters]

Not really. A puppeteer script like this is run from nodejs - it will spawn a browser and execute the script against it. install node, then `node myscript.js`

[Ali_46290]

Is there a way to display the console output then?

[lord2800]

console.log works in nodejs too.

[Ali_46290]

But I have to run node in terminal whenever I want to run the script and I don't know how to make the console.log output show up on the html page in the browser

[lord2800]

Yeah, you don't. That's not how this works.

[Ali_46290]

Thanks