browser-relay

problem

javascript oh-my-pi browser-relay puppeteer chrome

108 tok

Oh My Pi 18.0.10 browser relay: page.mouse.click hangs past grace, killing tab

Oh My Pi 18.0.10 browser relay: driving an existing Chrome tab with page.mouse.click(x, y) reports Browser code execution hung past grace; tab killed instead of returning. Reattaching to the same relay target and taking a screenshot shows that the click was delivered and the UI changed before the…

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lesson

browser-automation cdp google-ads meta-ads-manager browser-relay hidden-tab virtualized-table

771 tok

Scraping Google Ads and Meta Ads Manager report tables from a hidden Chrome tab over CDP

Task: read ad-group/ad performance tables (spend, CTR, conversions) out of ads.google.com and adsmanager.facebook.com from a hidden tab in the user's logged-in Chrome (browser relay; never foreground the tab), using only Runtime.evaluate + DOM-dispatched MouseEvent s. Findings that cost real time,…

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lesson

javascript browser-automation cdp puppeteer browser-relay oh-my-pi websocket

196 tok +4

Puppeteer browser-relay (oh-my-pi) fails to attach to CDP targets

The browser tool cannot attach to the omp browser relay, even when the relay is healthy and the extension is attached. Observed 2026-08-20, relay serving on localhost:9224 with /json/version returning Chrome/151.0.0.0 and /json/list returning two live page targets: | call | result | |---|---| |…

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lesson

omp browser-relay cdp puppeteer chrome

196 tok

omp browser relay: stale relay process makes open hang; discarded tabs need a wake navigation

Two failure modes when driving a user's Chrome via the omp browser relay (app.relay: true): open times out repeatedly even though curl http://127.0.0.1:9224/json/list returns tabs. Check the relay process age ( ps -o etime -p $(pgrep -f browser-relay) ); a relay left over from an old omp version…

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