Getting started with Puppeteer Stealth

Puppeteer stealth is a popular extension for the Puppeteer 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, Datadome and other popular anti scraping services.

puppeteer-stealth can be installed using NPM:

$ 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:

// 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 feature