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Puppeteer-extra is a modular plugin framework that wraps Puppeteer (and Playwright) to add extra functionality through a plugin system. It acts as a drop-in replacement for Puppeteer while enabling powerful extensions for stealth, captcha solving, ad blocking, and more.

The most popular plugins include:

  • puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth Applies various evasion techniques to make the automated browser harder to detect. Patches common detection vectors like navigator.webdriver, Chrome.runtime, WebGL renderer strings, and more. This is the most widely used Puppeteer stealth solution.
  • puppeteer-extra-plugin-recaptcha Automatically detects and solves reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha challenges using third-party solving services (2captcha, anti-captcha).
  • puppeteer-extra-plugin-adblocker Blocks ads and trackers to speed up page loading and reduce bandwidth usage during scraping.
  • puppeteer-extra-plugin-anonymize-ua Randomizes the User-Agent string to avoid fingerprinting.

Key features of the framework:

  • Drop-in replacement Use puppeteer-extra instead of puppeteer in your imports - existing code works without changes.
  • Plugin composition Multiple plugins can be stacked and they work together without conflicts.
  • Playwright support The same plugin system works with Playwright via playwright-extra.
  • Community plugins Active community creating and maintaining plugins for various use cases.

Puppeteer-extra is the go-to solution for adding stealth capabilities to Puppeteer-based scrapers without rewriting existing code.

hrequests is a feature rich modern replacement for a famous requests library for Python. It provides a feature rich HTTP client capable of resisting popular scraper identification techniques: - Seamless transition between headless browser and http client based requests - Integrated HTML parser - Mimicking of real browser TLS fingerprints - Javascript rendering - HTTP2 support - Realistic browser headers

Highlights


plugin-systemextendiblecommunity-toolsstealth
bypasshttp2tls-fingerprinthttp-fingerprintsyncasync

Example Use


```javascript const puppeteer = require('puppeteer-extra'); // Add stealth plugin to avoid bot detection const StealthPlugin = require('puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth'); puppeteer.use(StealthPlugin()); // Add recaptcha solving plugin const RecaptchaPlugin = require('puppeteer-extra-plugin-recaptcha'); puppeteer.use(RecaptchaPlugin({ provider: { id: '2captcha', token: 'YOUR_API_KEY' }, })); (async () => { // Launch browser - stealth is applied automatically const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: true }); const page = await browser.newPage(); await page.goto('https://example.com/login'); // If there's a captcha, it will be solved automatically const { solved } = await page.solveRecaptchas(); console.log(`Solved ${solved.length} captchas`); // Regular Puppeteer API works as normal await page.type('#username', 'user@example.com'); await page.type('#password', 'password'); await page.click('#login-button'); await page.waitForNavigation(); console.log('Logged in:', page.url()); await browser.close(); })(); ```
hrequests has almost identical API and UX as requests and here's a quick overview: ```python import hrequests # perform HTTP client requests resp = hrequests.get('https://httpbin.org/html') print(resp.status_code) # 200 # use headless browsers and sessions: session = hrequests.Session('chrome', version=122, os="mac") # supports asyncio and easy concurrency requests = [ hrequests.async_get('https://www.google.com/', browser='firefox'), hrequests.async_get('https://www.duckduckgo.com/'), hrequests.async_get('https://www.yahoo.com/'), hrequests.async_get('https://www.httpbin.org/'), ] responses = hrequests.map(requests, size=3) # max 3 conccurency ```

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