I am having an error in my code node require external module. i need puppeteer. i know there is a puppeteer community node, but its not working from me for some reason. so i am trying to just run it in a code node instead. Error: [image] I tried to npm install in the /home/node which you can see…

i cant get this working. i’ll just deploy a script and call it via api in an n8n workflow :confused:

Your setup seems correct at a glance. You may just need to reboot the instance to register the new external packages. You may have to import the packages a different way if still encountering issues, I have not tested this myself so far.

@ThinkBot hey thanks for your response. i tried to restart my container, and even redeployed also. but it is the same error, cannot fine module puppeteer when running the code node. one thing though, when i try to restart my container, i needed to install npm puppeteer again. is that normal?

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