Docs on how to run int programmatically?

[AlEsGoGit]

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Hello!.
I need to launch lighthouse for ci purposes, so looking for documentation i got to this repo.
I think its amazing, but im having problems trying to use it as a part of a node module.
Am i missing something or theres is not docs about this topic?
It will be great.
Thank you!

Edit:
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/tree/main/docs/recipes/auth
Thats the reason.
I need to make a login in one web app and then audit the app while keep the login.

[harlan-zw]

Hi @AlEsGoGit, thanks for the issue :)

I've expanded the Authentication docs to include an authentication example, see here.

Let me know if that's not clear or you have issues.

[AlEsGoGit]

Thats nice, thank you.
But it has a problem.
It indeed allows you to log in manually using a form displayed in your web, but yo lose the page context cause you are doing a "manual" goto to the login page, so the lighthouse test runs over the login parge or wherever it redirects you after the login.

Thanks.

[harlan-zw]

Hmm I see. Personally I haven't ever needed this functionlity so have limited functionality and testing around it. I want to provide support for it.

Would it be possible to provide a flow on the site you're trying to get authentication working for? Happy to create an account on it if needed.

[AlEsGoGit]

Im using laravel for my app, so the basic flow is a login page that redirects you to the requested page when you log in.
So when i provide an url, inside the "before go to" hook, i can use puppeteer to log in, but after that, puppeteer fails due to this redirect.

"Error "We have an error Error: the execution context was destroyed, probably because of a navigation."

Lighthouse solves this allowing you to pass a page instance that its already logged as a parameter for the lighthouse function:
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/tree/main/docs/recipes/auth

Thats why i asked if there is an option to use unlighthouse inside a node script instead a cli command with an option file.
Somthing like this:
https://unlighthouse.dev/api
But with the complete flow, to create an script that could make it work after doing something with puppeteer.
For example, i could make a previous request to log in, get the log in cookie form the request and provide it as an option to a callable unlighthouse.

I think this workaround will work for me.

But if you are instested in implementing a solution that works with the hook, i could make and provide you a basic example of the site.

Very thank you!

[AlEsGoGit]

Hello again!
Are you interested in giving a solution to this?
As i said i could provide you a working sample site under a validation page.

If its the case ill need to know what will you need or what would be usefull for you to test and develop it.

Thank you!

[harlan-zw]

Hey, sorry for the lack of response.

I've released 0.10.0 which includes an authenticate hook which should make this easier.

See here: https://unlighthouse.dev/guide/guides/authentication#programmatic-usage

Let me know if you have any issues.