Fail on intialization

[pauloacosta]

Fatal error: Uncaught ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Exception\RuntimeException: Executable [chrome] not found. in C:\xampp\htdocs\vendor\jakubkulhan\chrome-devtools-protocol\src\ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Instance\Launcher.php:139 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php(17): ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Instance\Launcher->launch(Object(ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Context)) #1 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\vendor\jakubkulhan\chrome-devtools-protocol\src\ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Instance\Launcher.php on line 139 

Code:

`<?php

require "./vendor/autoload.php";

use ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Context;
use ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Instance\Launcher;
use ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Model\Page\PrintToPDFRequest;
use ChromeDevtoolsProtocol\Model\Page\NavigateRequest;

@Unlink(DIR . '/test.pdf');

// context creates deadline for operations
$ctx = Context::withTimeout(Context::background(), 30 /* seconds */);

// launcher starts chrome process ($instance)
$launcher = new Launcher();
$instance = $launcher->launch($ctx);

try {
// work with new tab
$tab = $instance->open($ctx);
$tab->activate($ctx);

$devtools = $tab->devtools();
try {
	$devtools->page()->enable($ctx);
	$devtools->page()->navigate($ctx, NavigateRequest::builder()->setUrl("https://www.google.com/")->build());
	$devtools->page()->awaitLoadEventFired($ctx);
    $data = $devtools->page()->printToPDF($ctx, PrintToPDFRequest::fromJson((object) [
        'displayHeaderFooter' => false
    ]))->data;
    file_put_contents(__DIR__ . '/../test.pdf', base64_decode($data));
} finally {
	// devtools client needs to be closed
	$devtools->close();
}

} finally {
// process needs to be killed
$instance->close();
}`

Any idea what could be going on? Is there a place where I set the Chrome address? On my system it is installed at the default address.

[official-ymail-com]

You need to install Chrome

For example, I am using ubuntu 18
$ wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

[pauloacosta]

I am using Windows 10 and Chrome is installed at default folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Is there a file where I set up the Chrome address?

[official-ymail-com]

You can specific Chrome path like this:

$launcher = new Launcher();
$launcher->setExecutable('/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable');
$instance = $launcher->launch();

[pauloacosta]

Thank You! Worked like a charm!

I am a Windows user, then my code was:

// launcher starts chrome process ($instance)
$launcher = new Launcher();
$launcher->setExecutable('C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application');
$instance = $launcher->launch($ctx);