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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Apr 25, 2023 1 min read [\#puppeteer](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/puppeteer) 

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Puppeteer stealth is a popular extension for the [Puppeteer](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/web-scraping-with-puppeteer-and-nodejs) browser automation framework. This plugin patches Puppeteer runtime to be less likely to be detected by anti-scraping detection techniques.

Using puppeteer-stealth scrapers have better chance at bypassing [Cloudflare](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-bypass-cloudflare-anti-scraping), [Datadome](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/how-to-bypass-datadome-anti-scraping) and other popular anti scraping services.

[puppeteer-stealth](https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth) can be installed using NPM:

shell```shell
$ npm install puppeteer puppeteer-extra puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth
# or
$ yarn add puppeteer puppeteer-extra puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth
```



Then the `StealthPlugin` object needs to be attached to enable the extension:

javascript```javascript
// Note: import puppeteer-extra rather than puppeteer
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer-extra')

// add stealth plugin and use defaults (all evasion techniques)
const StealthPlugin = require('puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth')
puppeteer.use(StealthPlugin())

// test run - check scrapfly.io browser fingerprint page
puppeteer.launch({ headless: true }).then(async browser => {
  console.log('Running tests..')
  const page = await browser.newPage()
  await page.goto('https://scrapfly.io/web-scraping-tools/browser-fingerprint')
  await page.waitForTimeout(5000)
  await page.screenshot({ path: 'testresult.png', fullPage: true })
  await browser.close()
  console.log(`All done, check the screenshot. ✨`)
})
```



Note that `puppeteer-stealth` features many patches for different detection techniques that can be customized and extended.

Alternatively, Scrapfly API automatically bypasses anti scraping protections using [anti scraping protection bypass](https://scrapfly.io/docs/scrape-api/anti-scraping-protection) feature



 

    



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