puppeteer-stealthvscamoufox

MIT 301 30 94,086

3.6 million (month) May 29 2018 2.11.2(2023-04-11 04:13:00 ago)

7,089 3 244 MPL-2.0

Mar 01 2024 1.0 million (month) 0.4.11(2025-01-29 09:33:18 ago)

Puppeteer Stealth is puppeteer plugin that fortifies headles browser for web scraping. This makes detection of puppeteer scrapers more difficult allowing to scrape targets which use headless browser detection techniques.

Puppeteer-stealth does this by applying various javascript patches to cover up traces of headless browser presence in the web scraping browser's environment.

Camoufox is an anti-detect browser built on Firefox, designed specifically for web scraping and browser automation while evading bot detection systems. Unlike Chrome-based anti-detect solutions, Camoufox uses a patched version of Firefox with over 100 modifications to prevent fingerprinting and detection.

Key features include:

Firefox-based stealth Uses Firefox instead of Chrome, which has different fingerprinting characteristics and is less commonly targeted by anti-bot systems. The browser is patched at the C++ level to prevent JavaScript-based fingerprint leaks.
Realistic fingerprints Generates and applies realistic browser fingerprints including screen resolution, WebGL renderer, fonts, and other browser properties that match real user configurations.
Playwright integration Works seamlessly with Playwright for Python, providing the familiar Playwright API while running through the stealth-patched Firefox instance.
Proxy support Built-in proxy support with authentication, including residential proxy rotation.
Geolocation spoofing Can spoof browser geolocation to match proxy IP location for consistent fingerprints.
Human-like behavior Includes utilities for adding human-like mouse movements and typing patterns.

Camoufox is particularly effective against sophisticated anti-bot systems that detect Chrome-based automation tools. By using Firefox as the base, it avoids many Chrome-specific detection vectors while the deep browser patches prevent general fingerprinting techniques.

Highlights

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Example Use

```javascript const puppeteer = require('puppeteer-extra') // add stealth plugin and use defaults (all evasion techniques) const StealthPlugin = require('puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth') puppeteer.use(StealthPlugin()) // puppeteer usage as normal puppeteer.launch({ headless: true }).then(async browser => { console.log('Running tests..') const page = await browser.newPage() await page.goto('https://bot.sannysoft.com') await page.waitForTimeout(5000) await page.screenshot({ path: 'result.png', fullPage: true }) await browser.close() console.log("success - check the result.png screenshot") }) ```

```python from camoufox.sync_api import Camoufox # Launch stealth Firefox browser with Camoufox(headless=True) as browser: page = browser.new_page() # Navigate - the browser appears as a real Firefox user page.goto("https://example.com") # Use standard Playwright API for interaction page.fill("input[name='search']", "web scraping") page.click("button[type='submit']") # Extract data results = page.query_selector_all(".result") for result in results: title = result.query_selector("h3").text_content() print(title) # With proxy and custom fingerprint from camoufox.sync_api import Camoufox with Camoufox( headless=True, proxy={"server": "http://proxy.example.com:8080"}, geoip=True, # auto-match geolocation to proxy IP ) as browser: page = browser.new_page() page.goto("https://example.com") print(page.content()) ```