"Could not find Chromium" error on Vercel

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Current Behavior: I’m deploying a Node.js/Express API to Vercel that uses capture-website (which uses Puppeteer under the hood) to generate website screenshots. The deployment is successful, but when I make a request to the screenshot endpoint, I receive a “Could not find Chromium” error. My script is functioning properly locally.

  • The error occurs when I make a POST request to the /screenshot endpoint.

The Vercel logs show the following error:

Error making capture-website call: Could not find Chromium (rev. ...). This can occur if either
 1. you did not perform an installation before running the script (e.g. `npm install`) or
 2. your cache path is incorrectly configured (which is: /home/sbx_user1051/.cache/puppeteer).
For (2), check out our guide on configuring puppeteer at https://pptr.dev/guides/configuration.```


Relevant code:

const captureWebsite = require(‘capture-website’);

async function getScreenshot(url) {
try {
const base64Image = await captureWebsite.base64(url, {
fullPage: true,
disableAnimations: true,
});
return base64Image;
} catch (error) {
console.error(“Error making capture-website call:”, error.message);
throw new Error(“Failed to capture screenshot with capture-website.”);
}
}```

My package.json dependencies:

"dependencies": {
    "axios": "^1.6.8",
    "capture-website": "^3.1.0",
    "dotenv": "^16.4.5",
    "express": "^4.18.3",
    "nodemailer": "^6.9.15",
    "openai": "^4.38.2",
    "validator": "^13.12.0",
    "puppeteer": "^23.10.4"
  },```

Project URL: https://roast-my-website.vercel.app/
Framework: Node.js/Express
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