Default user agent seems very outdated

[dleber]

I'm consistently seeing Chrome 95 or 96 in the user agent, despite having the latest versions of dependencies installed. If I remove stealth_sync, the user agent contains HeadlessChrome 133, which looks correct.

Any guidance on the following would be appreciated:

• why is such an old user agent being used by default?
• how do I provide a more recent user agent in a way that remains stealthy?

This is the basic example I'm using:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
from playwright_stealth import stealth_sync

with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
    page = browser.new_page()
    stealth_sync(page)
    page.goto('https://bot.sannysoft.com/')
    page.wait_for_timeout(5000)
    page.screenshot(path="example_with_stealth.png", full_page=True)
    browser.close()

Thanks for your guidance.

[moritzwilksch]

tf-playwright-stealth uses fake-http-header which hasn't been updated in a while.
I am running into this issue because I'm trying to package tf-playwright-stealth on conda-forge, but fake-http-header doesn't seem to ship a source distribution. Alternatively, one could inline the functionality of generating fake headers into this project. This would be advantageous as:

1. It makes things easier to package
2. It doesn't rely on an outdated package, so updates to the dummy header data can be made here

[FT-Fetters]

I'm consistently seeing Chrome 95 or 96 in the user agent, despite having the latest versions of dependencies installed. If I remove stealth_sync, the user agent contains HeadlessChrome 133, which looks correct.

Any guidance on the following would be appreciated:

• why is such an old user agent being used by default?
• how do I provide a more recent user agent in a way that remains stealthy?

This is the basic example I'm using:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
from playwright_stealth import stealth_sync

with sync_playwright() as p:
browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
page = browser.new_page()
stealth_sync(page)
page.goto('https://bot.sannysoft.com/')
page.wait_for_timeout(5000)
page.screenshot(path="example_with_stealth.png", full_page=True)
browser.close()
Thanks for your guidance.

You can try this after await stealth_async(page)

from fake_useragent import UserAgent

# CODE....
await stealth_async(page)
ua = UserAgent()
ua_str = ua.random
await page.add_init_script(f"""
            Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'userAgent', {{
                get: () => '{ua_str}'
            }});
        """)

It is useful to me, the ua_str can be set to the desired user-agent.