CloakHQ/CloakBrowser
Stealth Chromium that passes every bot detection test. Drop-in Playwright replacement with source-level fingerprint patches. 50+ tests passed.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 5 days ago, with 28 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a stealth Chromium browser with source-level fingerprint patches that bypass all major bot detection systems.
- Delivers unmatched stealth by patching Chromium at the C++ source level, ensuring detection sites see a genuine browser rather than injected scripts or config tweaks.
- Use for building undetectable web scrapers that reliably bypass Cloudflare Turnstile and reCAPTCHA v3 protections.
- Use for automating QA and monitoring workflows on websites with advanced anti-bot defenses without modifying existing Playwright or Puppeteer code.
- Use for integrating stealth browser automation in AI agents or multi-framework environments requiring consistent, human-like interaction patterns.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Stealth Chromium that passes every bot detection test.
Cloudflare Turnstile — 3 live tests passing (headed mode, macOS)
Drop-in Playwright/Puppeteer replacement for Python and JavaScript.
Same API, same code — just swap the import. 3 lines of code, 30 seconds to unblock.
Also works with Puppeteer:
import { launch } from 'cloakbrowser/puppeteer'(details)For sites with anti-bot protection, add a residential proxy and these flags:
See Troubleshooting for site-specific issues (FingerprintJS, Kasada, reCAPTCHA).
Community-maintained .NET client built on Microsoft.Playwright. See
dotnet/README.mdfor the full API.On first run, the stealth Chromium binary is automatically downloaded (~200MB, cached locally).
Optional: Auto-detect timezone/locale from proxy IP:
Migrating from Playwright? One-line change:
⭐ Star to show support — Watch releases to get notified when new builds drop.
See the full CHANGELOG.md for details.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
2.7K+296
Open issues
164-21
Compared with peers in AI Agents
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| morluto/rea | 450.0K | +22.9K | 75 | 16 days ago |
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| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 20.6K | +8.4K | 75 | today |
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 115.8K | +4.7K | 75 | today |
| CloakHQ/CloakBrowser | 32.7K | — | 52 | 5 days ago |
| Category median | 115.8K | +8.4K | 75 | — |
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