I’m looking for any tips or tricks for making chrome headless mode less detectable. Here is what I’ve done so far:
Set my args as follows:
const run = (async () => {
const args = [
'--no-sandbox',
'--disable-setuid-sandbox',
'--disable-infobars',
'--window-position=0,0',
'--ignore-certifcate-errors',
'--ignore-certifcate-errors-spki-list',
'--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3312.0 Safari/537.36"'
];
const options = {
args,
headless: true,
ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
userDataDir: './tmp'
};
const browser = await puppeteer.launch(options);
I’m loading in a preload file that overrides some window.navigator globals:
const preloadFile = fs.readFileSync('./preload.js', 'utf8');
await page.evaluateOnNewDocument(preloadFile);
// overwrite the `languages` property to use a custom getter
Object.defineProperty(navigator, "languages", {
get: function() {
return ["en-US", "en"];
};
});
// overwrite the `plugins` property to use a custom getter
Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'plugins', {
get: function() {
// this just needs to have `length > 0`, but we could mock the plugins too
return [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
},
});
I see there are some other things suggested here https://intoli.com/blog/making-chrome-headless-undetectable/ but I'm not 100% certain how to implement them in puppeteer. Any ideas tips or tricks?
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