Stealth for Electron ?

[KaKi87]

Hello,

puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth is a Puppeteer plugin allowing the headless browser to be indistinguishable from a normal browser.

Is there any equivalent for Electron's webview ?

I'm asking here because use cases for adblocking can also be use cases for stealth so maybe someone here figured it out or could build it.

Thanks

[seia-soto]

I don't think you can use stealth plugin on Electron. It nature of puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth is on puppeteer and its compatible ecosystem. However, Ghostery's plugin is a wrapper for ghostery/adblocker which means the nature is not on puppeteer. I think there's no way to use puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth.

If you see the following files, you can find that they're heavily depending on the puppeteer API.

• https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/blob/master/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/evasions/navigator.languages/index.js
• https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/blob/master/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/evasions/_utils/withUtils.js#L8

It's not a kind of figuring out how to use some puppeteer plugin in Electron forcibly. It's closer to technically impossible.

However, all puppeteer-extra plugins are open-sourced and you can build your own version by referencing the stealth strategy you need from the puppeteer-extra repository. For this, you'll able to leverage electron APIs.

I hope this helped you. Thanks.

[KaKi87]

I don't think you can use stealth plugin on Electron

I know, that's why I was asking if anyone knew of an equivalent.

you can build your own version

Yes that's why I asked if someone did.

Personally I don't have the skills even starting from the puppeteer project 😅