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Regarding the "could not find browser" error: I worked around this by installing the Arch chromium package and then running with:

PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium decktape ...

No idea how to solve it properly in the package, ideally the bundled chromium should be used.

I get the error below when trying to run it. Perhaps it's missing a dependency?

Error: Could not find browser revision 768783. Run "npm install" or "yarn install" to download a browser binary.
    at ChromeLauncher.launch (/usr/lib/node_modules/decktape/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/node/Launcher.js:86:23)
    at async /usr/lib/node_modules/decktape/decktape.js:193:19

PKGBUILD for v3.0.0:

# Maintainer: Patrick Schratz <patrick.schratz@gmail.com>
# Adapted from nodejs-mkdirp

pkgname=nodejs-decktape
_npmname=decktape
pkgver=3.0.0
pkgrel=0
pkgdesc='PDF exporter for HTML presentation frameworks'
arch=('any')
url='https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape'
license=('MIT')
depends=('npm' 'nodejs')
source=("${_npmname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/astefanutti/"${_npmname}"/archive/v"${pkgver}".tar.gz")
md5sums=('b8df8d6cf3563ec449dd5b3b415252c9')

package() {
  local _npmdir="$pkgdir/usr/lib/node_modules/"
  mkdir -p $_npmdir
  cd $_npmdir
  npm install --user root -g --prefix "$pkgdir/usr" $_npmname@$pkgver

  find "$pkgdir/usr/bin" -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' +
  find "$pkgdir/usr/lib/node_modules" -type d -exec chmod -R 755 '{}' +

  install -Dm0644 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/node_modules/$_npmname/LICENSE" \
    "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
}

Have the same error as the one reported by @plaxx.

Can't build node-gyp:

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download 
node-pre-gyp WARN Tried to download(404): https://hummus.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/hummus/v1.0.108/node-v79-linux-x64-glibc.tar.gz 
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not found for hummus@1.0.108 and node@13.8.0 (node-v79 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp) 

[...]

../src/PDFDictionaryDriver.cpp: In static member function ‘static void PDFDictionaryDriver::ToJSObject(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value>&)’:
../src/PDFDictionaryDriver.cpp:78:110: error: no matching function for call to ‘v8::Object::Set(v8::Local<v8::String>, v8::Local<v8::Value>)’
   78 |         result->Set(NEW_STRING(it.GetKey()->GetValue().c_str()),driver->holder->GetInstanceFor(it.GetValue()));
      |                                                                                                              ^
In file included from /home/olivier/.cache/node-gyp/13.8.0/include/node/node.h:63,
                 from ../src/nodes.h:3,
                 from ../src/PDFDictionaryDriver.h:22,
                 from ../src/PDFDictionaryDriver.cpp:20:
/home/olivier/.cache/node-gyp/13.8.0/include/node/v8.h:3547:37: note: candidate: ‘v8::Maybe<bool> v8::Object::Set(v8::Local<v8::Context>, v8::Local<v8::Value>, v8::Local<v8::Value>)’
 3547 |   V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT Maybe<bool> Set(Local<Context> context,
      |                                     ^~~
/home/olivier/.cache/node-gyp/13.8.0/include/node/v8.h:3547:37: note:   candidate expects 3 arguments, 2 provided
/home/olivier/.cache/node-gyp/13.8.0/include/node/v8.h:3550:37: note: candidate: ‘v8::Maybe<bool> v8::Object::Set(v8::Local<v8::Context>, uint32_t, v8::Local<v8::Value>)’
 3550 |   V8_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT Maybe<bool> Set(Local<Context> context, uint32_t index,
      |                                     ^~~
/home/olivier/.cache/node-gyp/13.8.0/include/node/v8.h:3550:37: note:   candidate expects 3 arguments, 2 provided
/home/olivier/.cache/node-gyp/13.8.0/include/node/v8.h: In instantiation of ‘void v8::PersistentBase<T>::SetWeak(P*, typename v8::WeakCallbackInfo<P>::Callback, v8::WeakCallbackType) [with P = node::ObjectWrap; T = v8::Object; typename v8::WeakCallbackInfo<P>::Callback = void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<node::ObjectWrap>&)]’:
/home/olivier/.cache/node-gyp/13.8.0/include/node/node_object_wrap.h:85:78:   required from here
/home/olivier/.cache/node-gyp/13.8.0/include/node/v8.h:10400:16: warning: cast between incompatible function types from ‘v8::WeakCallbackInfo<node::ObjectWrap>::Callback’ {aka ‘void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<node::ObjectWrap>&)’} to ‘Callback’ {aka ‘void (*)(const v8::WeakCallbackInfo<void>&)’} [-Wcast-function-type]
10400 |                reinterpret_cast<Callback>(callback), type);
      |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [hummus.target.mk:159: Release/obj.target/hummus/src/PDFDictionaryDriver.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/home/olivier/.cache/aurman/nodejs-decktape/pkg/nodejs-decktape/usr/lib/node_modules/decktape/node_modules/hummus/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:321:20)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:275:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.19.101-1-lts

@meriops I think I resolved it. You might need to uninstall/install the package to get rid of the messages.

With the latest version, I get the warning "directory permissions differ (...) filesystem 755 package 777". Anybody else gets that?

We currently have problems to get the package building with the latest version. Actively working on it here: https://github.com/astefanutti/decktape/issues/136.