Puppeteer, a popular JavaScript library for browser automation, often faces challenges with bot detection technologies, especially when operating in headless mode, as it sets certain default properties that flag it as a bot. To overcome these limitations, Puppeteer Extra provides an extendable version of Puppeteer, offering plugin support that enhances its functionality. Notably, the Puppeteer Extra Stealth Plugin helps avoid bot detection by altering configurations that typically expose Puppeteer as a bot, such as modifying the User-Agent header and removing the navigator.webdriver property. Despite its effectiveness, advanced anti-bot solutions can still detect headless Chromium instances, underscoring the need for scalable solutions like Bright Data’s Scraping Browser, a cloud-based browser that integrates with Puppeteer and other automation libraries to provide features such as IP rotation, CAPTCHA resolution, and automated retries. These tools collectively aim to make web scraping and automated testing more resistant to bot detection mechanisms.