Can you use this with the Puppeteer stealth plugin?

[solkad]

Since this uses Puppeteer, I was wondering if there was any way to use browsershot with the Puppeteer stealth plugin.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth

Is this possible? If so, how would one do it?

[kriiv]

I'm also curious about this - would be extremely useful.

[rony98]

I ended up getting puppeteer extra plugin working with Browsershot. I don't necessarily recommend doing this as changing the vendor folder is never recommended but I did the following:

npm install puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth
npm install puppeteer puppeteer-extra

To install puppeter extra and the stealth plugin.

Went to vendor/spatie/browsershot/bin to edit the browser.js file

and within this file I changed line 60, "const puppet = (pup || require('puppeteer'));" to the following 4 lines:

const puppet = (pup || require('puppeteer-extra'));
const StealthPlugin = require('puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth');
puppet.use(StealthPlugin());

const {executablePath} = require('puppeteer');

The new executablePath is required because for whatever reason the old one being used wasn't working with newer version of puppeteer-core (I didn't look too much into it, found the solution on stackoverflow). With that I also had to change the current line 90 (originally line 86) to:

executablePath: executablePath(),

To use the new executable path and it worked.

Once again I don't necessarily recommend this. I think a PR should be made into Browershot to make the change properly, without hacking it, and so the vendor folder isn't messed with directly.

[ao-jhelmich]

You might want to check out the following pull request #399

This does the same thing you are describing with the tools delivered by the library

[rony98]

Will do, thank you.

[patrykszady]

Hi, I'm having trouble implementing this. Tried the solution above as well as #399. I'm not sure where to place the libs/browsershot.js file and where to point setBinPath to.