Company
Date Published
Author
Antonello Zanini
Word count
2143
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Vanilla Puppeteer struggles against sophisticated User Behavior Analytics (UBA) that detect bots by analyzing user interactions, making modern AI-powered bots more challenging to identify. Puppeteer-humanize, a Node.js library, enhances Puppeteer by simulating human-like typing behavior, introducing typographical errors, using the backspace key, and varying typing speed, thus making automated interactions appear less mechanical and more human-like. While this aids in bypassing basic anti-bot detection, it is not foolproof against advanced systems using CAPTCHAs or IP bans. The tutorial demonstrates setting up puppeteer-humanize for web scraping, highlighting its benefits and limitations, including potential challenges with scaling and resource usage. For more robust solutions, the article suggests using specialized, cloud-based browsers like Bright Data’s Browser API, which offer advanced anti-bot features such as rotating proxies and CAPTCHA solving.