browser tool not available despite playwright being installed

[materemias]

Hi,

thanks for the awesome tool. I have installed gptme with pipx and I have python-playwright installed as a system package (on arch).
Whenever gpt wants to read the web I see this warning:
WARNING:gptme.chat:Browser tool not available, skipping URL read

could you please suggest hiow I can get it working? (have checked docs and code)
thanks in advance!

[ErikBjare]

You cannot install playwright from Arch repos, as each version of playwright needs a specific browser version to be installed (with playwright install chromium).

We recently locked the playwright version to prevent people from having to download a new browser version on every update.

Try installing gptme with browser extras pipx install 'gptme[browser]', and then run python -m playwright install inside the gptme virtualenv managed by pipx. Since this is not straight forward pypa/pipx#434, you can ask gptme to do it (or just do gptme '/shell python3 -m playwright install'), since it's in the venv by default.

I will look into making all this smoother.

[materemias]

It worked this way, thanks a lot. maybe it would be worth to add these steps to the documentation!

[ErikBjare]

Done in #193, thanks for reporting!

[kfishes]

I cannot get this to work for the life of me! It acts like it's working but fails to do any actual web browsing