Bypassing CAPTCHAs with Headless Chrome using puppeteer

Question

google finds my browser is being manipulated/controlled/automated by software, and because of that I get reCaptcha. When I manual start chromium and do the same steps the reCaptcha doesn't appear.

Question 1)

Is it possible to solve captcha Programmatically or get rid of it when using puppeteer? Any way to solve this?

Question 2)

Does this happens only when without headless option i.e

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({   headless: false }) 

OR this is something the fact we have to accept and move on?

Answer 1

Try generating random useragent using this npm package. This usually solves the user agent-based protection.

In puppeteer pages can override browser user agent with page.setUserAgent

var userAgent = require('user-agents'); ... await page.setUserAgent(userAgent.toString()) 

Additionally, you can add these two extra plugins,

puppeteer-extra-plugin-recaptcha - Solves reCAPTCHAs automatically, using a single line of code: page.solveRecaptchas()

NOTE: puppeteer-extra-plugin-recaptcha uses a paid service 2captcha

puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth - Applies various evasion techniques to make detection of headless puppeteer harder.