Open-source Playwright wrapper that passes bot.sannysoft.com, pixelscan, and CreepJS in headless mode
An open-source Playwright wrapper has been developed to enhance web scraping capabilities. This library addresses common issues such as being blocked by websites by implementing various techniques to mimic human behavior. It has been tested successfully against multiple anti-bot services in headless mode.
- ▪The library offers region-spoofed TLS handshakes to avoid detection.
- ▪It includes JavaScript patches that remove automation flags before the page loads.
- ▪Human-like mouse movements and typing speeds are simulated to further reduce the chance of being blocked.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/shanewas/open-source-playwright-wrapper-that-passes-botsannysoftcom-pixelscan-and-creepjs-in-headless-5h3b |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 06:29:09 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T06:37:36.378Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T06:37:36.378Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | u4RPA-Iy_ZxS |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3950052) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Shanewas Ahmed Posted on May 25 Open-source Playwright wrapper that passes bot.sannysoft.com, pixelscan, and CreepJS in headless mode #automation #opensource #python #webscraping Been scraping for a while and got tired of getting blocked the moment a page loads. Standard Playwright leaks everywhere — TLS fingerprint, navigator.webdriver, WebGL renderer differences. Built a library that handles all of that before the page even loads: 1.
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