Playwright and Selenium are great until you hit bot detection. Google OAuth, Cloudflare, and Vercel...
Playwright and Selenium are great until you hit bot detection. Google OAuth, Cloudflare, and Vercel checkpoints all flag headless browsers. Here's how to control a real Chromium instance via CDP using Python and websockets.
Why Not Playwright?
Playwright launches a headless browser with automation flags. Even in headed mode with Xvfb, Google detects it.
The CDP Approach
Launch Chromium with remote debugging:
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