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Use Playwright with Smart Proxy Manager easily!

A wrapper over Playwright to provide Zyte Smart Proxy Manager specific functionalities.

QuickStart

  1. Install Zyte SmartProxy Playwright
npm install zyte-smartproxy-playwright
  1. Create a file sample.js with following content and replace <SPM_APIKEY> with your SPM Apikey
const { chromium } = require('zyte-smartproxy-playwright'); // Or 'firefox' or 'webkit'

(async () => {
    const browser = await chromium.launch({
        spm_apikey: '<SPM_APIKEY>',
        headless: false,
        static_bypass: false, //  enable to save bandwidth (but may break some websites)
        block_ads: false, //  enable to save bandwidth (but may break some websites)
    });
    console.log('Before new page');
    const page = await browser.newPage({ignoreHTTPSErrors: true});

    console.log('Opening page ...');
    try {
        await page.goto('https://toscrape.com/', {timeout: 180000});
    } catch(err) {
        console.log(err);
    }

    console.log('Taking a screenshot ...');
    await page.screenshot({path: 'screenshot.png'});
    await browser.close();
})();

Make sure that you're able to make https requests using Smart Proxy Manager by following this guide Fetching HTTPS pages with Zyte Smart Proxy Manager

  1. Run sample.js using Node
node sample.js

API

launch accepts all the arguments accepted by firefox.launch or launch methods of other browser types and some additional arguments defined below:

ArgumentDefault ValueDescription
spm_apikeyundefinedZyte Smart Proxy Manager API key that can be found on your zyte.com account.
spm_hosthttp://proxy.zyte.com:8011Zyte Smart Proxy Manager proxy host.
static_bypasstrueWhen true Zyte SmartProxy Playwright will skip proxy use for static assets defined by static_bypass_regex or pass false to use proxy.
static_bypass_regex/.*?\.(?:txt|json|css|less|gif|ico|jpe?g|svg|png|webp|mkv|mp4|mpe?g|webm|eot|ttf|woff2?)$/Regex to use filtering URLs for static_bypass.
block_adstrueWhen true Zyte SmartProxy Playwright will block ads defined by block_list using @cliqz/adblocker-playwright package.
block_list['https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/easylist.txt', 'https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/easyprivacy.txt']Block list to be used by Zyte SmartProxy Playwright in order to initiate blocker enginer using @cliqz/adblocker-playwright and block ads
headers{'X-Crawlera-No-Bancheck': '1', 'X-Crawlera-Profile': 'pass', 'X-Crawlera-Cookies': 'disable'}List of headers to be appended to requests

Notes

    const browser = await chromium.launch({
        spm_apikey: '<SPM_APIKEY>',
        headless: true,
        headers: {'X-Crawlera-No-Bancheck': '1', 'X-Crawlera-Profile': 'desktop', 'X-Crawlera-Cookies': 'disable'}
    });
--proxy-server=http://proxy.zyte.com:8011 --disable-site-isolation-trials