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📊 APIs for Web Scraping, Browser Automation, and E2E Testing. CDP Mode bypasses bot-detection and handles CAPTCHAs. Adds stealth to Playwright. Includes an MCP server.

34 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 17 stories, 17 comments · first 2016-07-23 · latest 2025-07-29

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  1. Not yet! But it's on my list to try out next after giving SeleniumBase[1] a chance. [1] https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase
    comment by wismwasm · 2025-07-29 · in Scraping German Rental Price Data – Part I: Whole Lotta Captchas
  2. Here's an example that bypasses Kasada on the Hyatt website: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/exa...
    comment by seleniumbase · 2024-12-19 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  3. On the topic of scraping grocery sites, here's an example of bypassing bot-detection on Albertsons: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/exa... (A demo of that is in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr90iQmNsKM )
    comment by mintzworld · 2024-12-18 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  4. The "CDP Mode" used for bypassing CAPTCHAs and bot-detection has it's own ReadMe within SeleniumBase: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/exa... And there's a recent YouTube video with live demos:…
    comment by mintzworld · 2024-12-18 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  5. There's actually a lot of examples being used for testing ( https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/tree/master/exa... ), which are run regularly (locally and in GitHub Actions). Plus, a lot of major companies are using SeleniumBase:…
    comment by seleniumbase · 2024-12-18 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  6. There's a reCAPTCHA on the Pokemon website. This SeleniumBase example bypassed it: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/exa...
    comment by seleniumbase · 2024-12-18 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  7. https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/sel... That's.. that works?? :D
    comment by lyu07282 · 2024-12-18 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  8. That method came from code that I accepted in a PR from December 31, 2019: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/pull/459 Not a true representation of most of the code today.
    comment by seleniumbase · 2024-12-17 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  9. …point-by-point rebuttal as the sibling requests, I think this sums up the coding style pretty well: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/v4.33.11/s...
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-12-17 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  10. …Thanks for your understanding." On the contrary, SeleniumBase is OK with bypassing bot detection: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/exa...
    comment by seleniumbase · 2024-12-17 · in SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
  11. I just wanted to suggest https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase if you are comfortable with using Python and Selenium. I opened various issues last year and the main developer is very welcoming and he fixes/improves the code very…
    comment by frafra · 2020-12-11 · in Cypress: Fast, easy, and reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser
  12. Here's the main website: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase
    comment by seleniumbase · 2020-05-25 · in Using Python to load JavaScript packages into any website via browser automation
  13. Link moved to: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/hel...
    comment by seleniumbase · 2020-05-25 · in A JavaScript package manager for loading any library into any website
  14. @mherrmann What would be the comparison / difference with SeleniumBase https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase ? I'm always on the lookout for browser automation using Python so excited to try this framework. I was a big fan of…
    comment by ivan_ah · 2020-02-26 · in Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium
  15. …test reliability. There's also built-in mobile testing and cross-browser testing features included: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/hel...
    comment by mintzworld · 2020-02-13 · in Using Python and Selenium for automated visual regression testing
  16. On the topic of convenience and flexibilty, I've made it easier to use the Selenium Grid Hub: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/tree/master/int...
    comment by seleniumbase · 2016-07-30 · in Building a browser-based test automation server on the Google Cloud Platform
  17. I built a Docker integration for SeleniumBase. You can find all the info in the Docker ReadMe: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/int...
    comment by seleniumbase · 2016-07-30 · in Building a browser-based test automation server on the Google Cloud Platform