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How to handle the timeout error?

Open gajus opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

What is the current behavior?

Getting unhandled exception:

{ Error: Navigation Timeout Exceeded: 30000ms exceeded
    at Promise.then (/.../node_modules/puppeteer/lib/NavigatorWatcher.js:73:21)
  options:
   { maxDepth: 1,
     priority: 0,
     delay: 0,
     retryCount: 1,
     retryDelay: 10000,
     timeout: 30000,
     jQuery: true,
     browserCache: false,
     skipDuplicates: true,
     depthPriority: true,
     obeyRobotsTxt: true,
     followSitemapXml: false,
     skipRequestedRedirect: false,
     cookies: null,
     screenshot: null,
     viewport: null,
     evaluatePage:
      "(() => {\n      return {\n        title: $('title').text()\n      };\n    })()",
     url: 'https://foo.bar/' },
  depth: 1,
  previousUrl: null }

Despite configured onError handler:

const crawl = async (startUrl: string) => {
  log.debug('beginning to crawl %s', startUrl);

  const crawler = await launchCrawler({
    browserCache: false,
    evaluatePage: () => {
      return {
        title: $('title').text()
      };
    },
    headless: true,
    onError: (error) => {
      console.log(error);
    },
    onSuccess: (result) => {
      console.log(result);
    },
    retryCount: 1
  });

  crawler.queue(startUrl);

  await crawler.onIdle();
  await crawler.close();
};

What is the expected behavior?

I am expecting that the onError handler would catch the timeout error.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

Otherwise, there is no documented way to handle a timeout.

Please tell us about your environment:

  • Version: ^1.8.0
  • Platform / OS version: OSX
  • Node.js version: v11.3.0

gajus avatar Dec 25 '18 08:12 gajus

This happens when some of the resources on the initial page timeout, e.g. CSS.

There should be an option permitting ignoring loading of those resources.

gajus avatar Dec 25 '18 08:12 gajus

@gajus thanks for the suggestion! Good point! Do you consider creating a PR?

kulikalov avatar Oct 17 '20 07:10 kulikalov