[Question] Comparison of Patchright with Rebrowser

[doojin]

I have a web crawler pet project which uses Playwright library under the hood and until today I was applying some "fortification" patches to the library manually. The results are pretty OK, but I decided to explore other "drop-in" options available which brought me here.

First of all, after doing some tests with Patchright I have to admit you guys did an awesome job. I'd like to thank all the project contributors for such a great free tool becoming available.

Another option which I found was Rebrowser (https://github.com/rebrowser/rebrowser-patches) which is pretty similar to your project. It contains patches for both: Playwright and Puppeteer.

After playing with both libraries, I can say that the results are pretty much identical. Which brings me to a question, if these two projects are competitors (providing quite the same functionality) and if so, which one should I choose?

As an end user, during my tests I found two differences:

• Rebrowser in some cases logs some errors during navigation, which do not affect the result, but are quite annoying (while Patchright handles such cases without any problem).
• Patchright triggers the Cloudflare checks in scenarios where Rebrowser does not trigger them (I am using identical code for both tests). Even tho I am able to pass the check by clicking on the Cloudflare human verification checkbox (Patchright is handling this step without any problem), it's very concerning, since I'd like to avoid being detected in first place.

[Vinyzu]

From Browser-Use PR/Discussion:

In comparison to rebrowser patchright is:

• More Actively Developed (Recent Rebrowser Update is 4 months old, still on v1.49.1, Patchright is on v1.51.1 (most recent version))
• More Feature-Rich, for example Patchright is now able to access Closed Shadow Roots using normal locators.
• More Robust (According to Issues less Bugs, Patchright was also tested against Playwright Tests and Bugs are properly documented ) (Not that currently there some issues/bugs in patchright because of the new Locator and Init Script Engine but im working on it actively, shouldnt take long to fix)
• More Stealthy (Patchright patches more leaks and is reported to me to have better pass rates, though i also heard from few that rebrowser worked better for them in that regard)
• Has a Robust CD, thanks to automatic Workflow Releasing and a better Patch handling with AST-based Patching instead of .Patch Files

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