ℹ️ Please, see the full project documentation here:
https://softvisio-node.github.io/playwright/

Introduction

Provides set of patches and extensions for playwright.

You can find original playwright API documentation here.

Install

npm install @softvisio/playwright

It doesn't installs any browsers by default, so if you need chromiun you need to install it manually:

npx playwright install chromium

Usage

import playwright from "@softvisio/playwright";

Class: BrowserType

Patch for the original BrowserType class. Adds following changes:

• headless By default under windows headless is set to the false for other platforms to the true.
• executablePath By default for linux platform is set to the "/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable".
• proxy By default adds proxy server loopback that bypass all requests. It can be overridden in the browser contexts.

Class: Browser

browser.isHeadless

• Returns: {boolean} true if browser started in the headless mode.

browser.newContext( options )

• options {Object} New context options. Below are enumerated only the changes for the original API method:
  • stealth {boolean} Enables various stealth mode extensions, which helps to hide headless mode. Default: true.
  • proxy {string|ProxyClient|Object} Added support for {ProxyClient}. If {string} is provided it will be passed to the {ProxyClient} constructor as URL.

Class: Page

page.imagesIsDisabled

• Returns: {boolean} true if images is currently disabled.

page.disableImages()

Sets route filter, which filters out images requests.

Resources

https://httpbin.org/user-agent

http://www.ip-score.com

https://arh.antoinevastel.com/bots/areyouheadless

https://bot.sannysoft.com

https://antoinevastel.com/bots/