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Command-line tool to scan Google search results for vulnerabilities
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Add instructions to README to run headless #12

Closed BBerastegui closed 4 years ago

BBerastegui commented 4 years ago

Hi!

It's a common error that when trying to run this tool in a completely headless environment such as a VPS, people is getting the following errors from PhantomJS:

qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Could not connect to any X display.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/dorkbot", line 11, in <module>
(...)

You may want to add the following to the README:

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen

This will allow PhantomJS to run without the need to be attached to a display :D

jgor commented 4 years ago

Thanks for this information. This sounds like it may be a package-specific issue for certain distributions of phantomjs? We operate this in headless RHEL within docker python:3-slim containers, a pretty barebones environment, using the official tarball from the phantomjs site and have not encountered this error.

BBerastegui commented 4 years ago

Maybe it's just affecting specific packages, but I'm not sure, sorry :/

Hope I helped at least the people looking for the same errors! Cheers!