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This package use to incorrectly build from source in the past. It now correctly builds from an archive of the source without needing dependencies like git.

Please report any user-agent related errors that stem from running recent versions of Chrome and Chromium upstream.

I do have chromium installed. I expressly installed it and actually have it setup with Group Speed Dial, Emby, Tribel, and Reddit as the default start pages. I have my Chromium shortcut name as Emby as well.

@Locutus64 You don't seem to have chromium installed. Could you try installing chromium and restarting the service?

I'm trying to set up flaresolverr with Prowlarr and it just is not working. Flaresolver is active and running.

laresolverr.service - FlareSolverr
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/flaresolverr.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-10-22 16:35:24 PDT; 5min ago
   Main PID: 20878 (flaresolverr)
      Tasks: 6 (limit: 28639)
     Memory: 155.6M
        CPU: 2.019s
     CGroup: /system.slice/flaresolverr.service
             ├─20878 /opt/flaresolverr/flaresolverr
             └─21135 Xvfb :749125826 -screen 0 800x680x24

Oct 22 16:36:25 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:36:25 INFO     127.0.0.1 POST http://localhost:8191/v1 500 Internal Server Error
Oct 22 16:36:26 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:36:26 INFO     Incoming request => POST /v1 body: {'maxTimeout': 60000, 'cmd': 'request.get', 'url': 'https://prowlarr.servarr.com/v1/ping', 'proxy': {}}
Oct 22 16:36:26 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:36:26 ERROR    Error: Error solving the challenge. \n---------------------\nCould not determine browser executable.\n---------------------\nMake sure your browser is installed in the default location (path).\nIf you are sure about the browser>
Oct 22 16:36:26 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:36:26 INFO     Response in 0.003 s
Oct 22 16:36:26 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:36:26 INFO     127.0.0.1 POST http://localhost:8191/v1 500 Internal Server Error
Oct 22 16:39:21 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:39:21 INFO     127.0.0.1 GET http://localhost:8191/ 200 OK
Oct 22 16:39:35 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:39:35 INFO     Incoming request => POST /v1 body: {'maxTimeout': 60000, 'cmd': 'request.get', 'url': 'https://prowlarr.servarr.com/v1/ping', 'proxy': {}}
Oct 22 16:39:35 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:39:35 ERROR    Error: Error solving the challenge. \n---------------------\nCould not determine browser executable.\n---------------------\nMake sure your browser is installed in the default location (path).\nIf you are sure about the browser>
Oct 22 16:39:35 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:39:35 INFO     Response in 0.003 s
Oct 22 16:39:35 Unimatrixz-Zero flaresolverr[20878]: 2023-10-22 16:39:35 INFO     127.0.0.1 POST http://localhost:8191/v1 500 Internal Server Error

I would've liked to keep the votes separate, since it's possible flaresolverr might offer binaries compiled by pyinstaller or nuitka, but it's done now so it's alright.

@txtsd You may want to remove your pinned comment now it is merged.

I submitted a merge request so votes and comments will be merged into flaresolverr, and flaresolverr-bin will be deleted.

This package will not be updated until upstream provides binaries. For version 3.0 onward, try flaresolverr or flaresolverr-git instead.

UPDATE (2023/01/06): The preferred way to install is via AUR, using the new flaresolverr package. The below manual install instructions are left as a reference, until the migration of the upstream to a compliant Python Packaging format is complete.

Anybody who would want to try out the new version without an AUR package could do a manual install via pipx:

1. Install chromium sudo pacman -S chromium
2. Install pipx: sudo pacman -S python-pipx
3. Install flaresolverr from the WIP PR: pipx install --suffix '@git' git+https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr/@refs/pull/651/head
4. Launch flaresolverr: flaresolverr@git

I'll work on updating this to flaresolverr 3.0 today. You're correct about needing a package rename now, since there aren't any prebuilt binaries.

I think the lack of PEP-517 support and lack of a published sdist tarball on PyPI are going to be blockers for a proper Python package for now.

Gaspard and myself are currently working through the PEP-517 part in the referenced Github PR.

I'll work on updating this to flaresolverr 3.0 today. You're correct about needing a package rename now, since there aren't any prebuilt binaries.