Using Puppeteer Stealth Plugin (puppeteer-extra) and playwright-extra

import RunnableCodeBlock from '@site/src/components/RunnableCodeBlock'; import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs'; import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem'; import ApiLink from '@site/src/components/ApiLink'; import PuppeteerExtraSource from '!!raw-loader!roa-loader!./puppeteer-extra.ts'; import PlaywrightExtraSource from '!!raw-loader!roa-loader!./playwright-extra.ts';

puppeteer-extra and playwright-extra are community-built libraries that bring in a plugin system to enhance the usage of puppeteer and playwright respectively (bringing in extra functionality, like improving stealth for example by using the Puppeteer Stealth plugin (puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth)).

:::tip Available plugins

You can see a list of available plugins on the puppeteer-extras plugin list.

For playwright, please see playwright-extras plugin list instead.

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In this example, we'll show you how to use the Puppeteer Stealth (puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth) plugin to help you avoid bot detections when crawling your target website.

:::info Before you begin

Make sure you've installed the Puppeteer Extra (puppeteer-extra) and Puppeteer Stealth plugin(puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth) packages via your preferred package manager

npm install puppeteer-extra puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth

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:::tip

To run this example on the Apify Platform, select the apify/actor-node-puppeteer-chrome image for your Dockerfile.

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:::info Before you begin

Make sure you've installed the playwright-extra and puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth packages via your preferred package manager

npm install playwright-extra puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth

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:::tip

To run this example on the Apify Platform, select the apify/actor-node-puppeteer-chrome image for your Dockerfile.

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