Because Puppeteer depends on certain dependencies, like Chrome, to work properly, it can be difficult to deploy Puppeteer on Vercel. This tutorial describes the causes of and solutions for issues like Could not find Chrome that arise in cloud environments.

Running a Node.js script with Puppeteer on a server and getting the "Could not find Chrome" error can be a difficult problem, particularly if your environment changes from a local configuration to a server context under "www-data" user permissions.

It can be challenging to run into problems with the executable path in Puppeteer when scraping TikTok profiles, particularly when using Chromium in different contexts. Changing the path or unpacking the .tar file can resolve the input directory error.