Puppeteer page.evaluate runs inside the page, so closure variables are not available to it
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:59.288Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:59.288Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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The function passed to page.evaluate is serialized to source and executed in the browser context, not in Node. Variables from the surrounding Node scope are undefined inside it, and referencing one throws a ReferenceError reported from the page rather than from your script. Values must be passed as extra arguments, and those arguments travel as JSON, so functions, Date instances, Map, undefined and cyclic structures do not survive the trip intact.
The return value has the same constraint: returning a DOM node yields an empty object, and page.evaluateHandle or page.$ is needed to keep a live reference. Bundlers add a second trap, because a transpiled or instrumented function body can reference helper variables that only exist in Node, and that failure appears only at runtime inside the page.
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