jonfriesen / playwright-go-stealth

🥷 A simple puppeteer evasions shim for playwright-go projects.

🥷 playwright-go-stealth

This is a simple shim to inject the puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth evasions using berstend's extraction for playwright-go.

Example Comparison
🚨 Without the stealth script injected
✅ With stealth script injected

Usage

import stealth "github.com/jonfriesen/playwright-go-stealth"

// pass a playwright.Page and the script will be injected
err = stealth.Inject(playwrightPage)
if err != nil {
    log.Fatalf("could not inject stealth script: %v", err)
}

Example

The example/main.go will generate two, full page screenshots showing the bot detection results. This can be run with go run example/main.go and the screenshots will be saved in the location you run the command from.

Updates

The stealth.min.js file will be periodically updated in this repo. Further updates or specific versions are not supported or tracked at this time. However, I would accept contributions to include this functionality.

Running make update-stealth-js will pull the latest evasions script.

Note: This requires npx.

Additional Stealth Tips

Disable blink automation control

browser, err = m.PW.Chromium.Launch(playwright.BrowserTypeLaunchOptions{
    Args: []string{"--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled"},
})

Set a custom UserAgent

🔗 UserAgent Repositry

const userAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_2) AppleWebKit/601.3.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.2 Safari/601.3.9"
page, err := browser.NewPage(playwright.BrowserNewPageOptions{
    UserAgent: playwright.String(userAgent),
})

Experiment with less common headers

page, err := browser.NewPage(playwright.BrowserNewPageOptions{
    ExtraHttpHeaders: map[string]string{
        "Cache-Control":      "no-cache",
        "Sec-Ch-Ua":          `"Google Chrome";v="125", "Chromium";v="125", "Not.A/Brand";v="24"`,
        "Sec-Ch-Ua-Platform": "macOS",
    },
})