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by DantesTravel 1304 days ago
Yes, that’s what I’ve done up to now. When forced to use Playwright, I’ve noticed too that Webkit is less detected, but depends from website to website. I tried the solution described on the substack, fundamentally the gologin browser, based on chromium, opens a port on your local machine and Playwright connects to that browser, automating the crawling.
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Yeah, Chrome is the worst choice for this use-case - see my last comment on this thread for more on that. Can you speak a bit more on what you'd like to use a headless anti-detect browser for over regular headless browsers? Is it to leverage their built-in fingerprinting control, effectively avoiding anti-bot measure with little effort, or management of multiple "profiles", etc? My system effectively comes down to using webkit, and storing credentials (encrypted w/ symmetric key) as well as whatever information is needed by Playwright to reconstruct the session. Simply using webkit + DB effectively achieves a headless anti-detect browser, but you're right that webkit alone isn't always a one-and-done solution.