Stealth plugins not found when making .exe with pkg

[AsianPotato]

// puppeteer-extra is a drop-in replacement for puppeteer,
// it augments the installed puppeteer with plugin functionality
const puppeteer = require("puppeteer-extra")
// register plugins through `.use()`
puppeteer.use(
  require("puppeteer-extra-plugin-anonymize-ua")({ makeWindows: true })
)
puppeteer.use(require("puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth")())

// usage as normal
puppeteer.launch().then(async browser => {
  const page = await browser.newPage()
  await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/headers", {
    waitUntil: "domcontentloaded"
  })
  const content = await page.content()
  console.log("content:", content) // => (..) User-Agent: (..) Windows NT 10.0
  await browser.close()
})

When I use that piece of code it doesn't work, giving me this error

C:\Users\Dan\Desktop\nodetests>node index

          A plugin listed 'puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/evasions/chrome.runtime' as dependency,
          which is currently missing. Please install it:

          yarn add puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth

          Note: You don't need to require the plugin yourself,
          unless you want to modify it's default settings.

(node:38324) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Class extends value #<Object> is not a constructor or null
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Dan\node_modules\puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth\evasions\chrome.runtime\index.js:10:22)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
    at PuppeteerExtra.resolvePluginDependencies (C:\Users\Dan\node_modules\puppeteer-extra\index.js:264:15)
    at PuppeteerExtra.launch (C:\Users\Dan\node_modules\puppeteer-extra\index.js:96:10)
(node:38324) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 2)
(node:38324) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

When I remove puppeteer.use(require("puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth")()) it works fine

[berstend]

Whoops, I have an idea why that might be - I rewrote the base plugin in typescript and changed the exports to be named. Let me check!

[berstend]

@AsianPotato could you run yarn list puppeteer-extra-* real quick and paste the output here? thanks!

[berstend]

Nevermind I found the issue - fixing it now 😄

[AsianPotato]

Thanks a lot for the quick reply!

[berstend]

@AsianPotato I just published [email protected] with a fix, everything should work now.

Rerunning yarn add puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth in your project should be enough to fetch the new version.

Apologies for that bug, I rewrote parts in typescript just yesterday and for some mysterious reasons the CI tests didn't complain about this issue. 😄

[berstend]

Keep in mind that the example script you're using is making use of two plugins that need to be installed.

So next to yarn add puppeteer puppeteer-extra you also need to run yarn add puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth puppeteer-extra-plugin-anonymize-ua for the example script to work.

Maybe I should make that clearer in the readme.

[berstend]

@AsianPotato thanks a lot for the issue, I've improved the main example to be much clearer for the next person. :-)

[Dam998]

Hi
I have this problem with puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth version 2.4.9
If I execute my software in cli with npm start, all work fine but if I create an exe with pkg I will receive this error:

      A plugin listed 'puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/evasions/chrome.runtime' as dependency,
      which is currently missing. Please install it:

      yarn add puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth

      Note: You don't need to require the plugin yourself,
      unless you want to modify it's default settings.

How can I fix this?

thank you @berstend

[eduardoewgo]

Getting the same issue as @Dam998...

"puppeteer": "^8.0.0",
"puppeteer-extra": "^3.1.16",
"puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth": "^2.7.5"

[berstend]

@eduardoewgo could you check with the latest versions?

(at the time of writing):

 - [email protected]
 - [email protected]

[Dam998]

@eduardoewgo I fixed it using nexe instead of pkg

[eduardoewgo]

@Dam998 kinda hard to move away from pkg at this point and I've tried nexe in the past; just can't remember what was the issue back then.. anyway, I'll try a bit more on this and last resource nexe.

@berstend I've installed the newest version and the error persists 😞

Just to give some context

This is the module loading up puppeteer.

const chromeExecutablePath = path.join(execPath, 'chromium/win64-856583/chrome-win/chrome.exe')
const puppeteer = require(`puppeteer-extra`)
const StealthPlugin = require(`puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth`)

puppeteer.use(StealthPlugin())

This is the message I got

 A plugin listed 'puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/evasions/chrome.app' as dependency,
          which is currently missing. Please install it:

          yarn add puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth

Any other suggestion, @berstend ?

[berstend]

@eduardoewgo well, the issue is that their bundler trips over the dynamic imports: vercel/pkg#343

so what you might want to try is hardcoding the evasion imports somewhere in your code like this (to make the bundler aware of them):

require('puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/evasions/chrome.app')
// ...

[berstend]

There's also stuff like this you might want to look into:

"pkg": {
    "scripts": "node_modules/puppeteer/lib/*.js"
  }

(using that for the stealth evasions)

[eduardoewgo]

@berstend only solution was to manually install both puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth and puppeteer-extra to the output dir 😞

It's the only packag that is not being properly compiled by pkg/nexe. Well, not sure how viable this is gonna be once this is finished, but it's the only way I could get a working .exe now.

[eduardoewgo]

btw, I am using typescript - shouldn't matter, but just in case.

[gantonioid]

@eduardoewgo what do you mean by

@berstend only solution was to manually install both puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth and puppeteer-extra to the output dir 😞

[eduardoewgo]

@gantonioid

In the output dir, simply run npm install for both packages - it will create the node_modules within all dependencies of this package. This is ugly and defeats the purpose of having a .exec, but it's my only working version atm.

[taytanqbpass]

@eduardoewgo I fixed it using nexe instead of pkg
i
Hi, im also encountering this issue in pkg, how do I workaround using nexe? thanks.

[Dam998]

@eduardoewgo I fixed it using nexe instead of pkg
i
Hi, im also encountering this issue in pkg, how do I workaround using nexe? thanks.

Wdym?
just go to github page of nexe and follow their istruction to build an exe file : 3

[lockHrt]

I got it working with the pkg. I included the whole stealth module in the package.json file:

"pkg": {
    "scripts": ["node_modules/puppeteer/lib/*.js", "node_modules/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/**/*.js"]
  }

While compiling with pkg you will get bunch of warnings that 'ava' module not found. You can ignore them. That module is used in an example .js file which is included with the plugin. You won't be needing that.

[rabbit-yashow]

Did anybody get it working?

[TheJizel]

@rabbit-yashow I updated my global pkg to the latest version (5.4.1) and am no longer having this issue.

[gantonioid]

After giving up, a new requirement brought me again to this issue and I finally got it to work using @lockHrt 's suggestion THANKS A LOT... in my case I added node_modules/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/**/*.js to the scripts array (I already had the other one)

I got it working with the pkg. I included the whole stealth module in the package.json file:

"pkg": {
    "scripts": ["node_modules/puppeteer/lib/*.js", "node_modules/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth/**/*.js"]
  }

While compiling with pkg you will get bunch of warnings that 'ava' module not found. You can ignore them. That module is used in an example .js file which is included with the plugin. You won't be needing that.

[yadegenn]

in which package package.json you write this json so that it would work?