Zyte SmartProxy Puppeteer

Use Puppeteer with Smart Proxy Manager easily!

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

QuickStart

1. Install Zyte SmartProxy Puppeteer

npm install zyte-smartproxy-puppeteer

2. Create a file sample.js with following content and replace <SPM_APIKEY> with your SPM Apikey

const puppeteer = require('zyte-smartproxy-puppeteer');

(async () => {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
        spm_apikey: '<SPM_APIKEY>',
        ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
        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();

    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

3. Run sample.js using Node

node sample.js

API

ZyteProxyPuppeteer.launch accepts all the arguments accepted by Puppeteer.launch and some additional arguments defined below:

| Argument | Default Value | Description | |----------|---------------|-------------| | spm_apikey | undefined | Zyte Smart Proxy Manager API key that can be found on your zyte.com account. | | spm_host | http://proxy.zyte.com:8011 | Zyte Smart Proxy Manager proxy host. | | static_bypass | true | When true ZyteProxyPuppeteer 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_ads | true | When true ZyteProxyPuppeteer will block ads defined by block_list using @cliqz/adblocker-puppeteer package. | | block_list | ['https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/easylist.txt', 'https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/easyprivacy.txt'] | Block list to be used by ZyteProxyPuppeteer in order to initiate blocker enginer using @cliqz/adblocker-puppeteer 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

• Some websites may not work with block_ads and static_bypass enabled (default). Try to disable them if you encounter any issues.

• When using headless: true mode, values generated for some browser-specific headers are a bit different, which may be detected by websites. Try using 'X-Crawlera-Profile': 'desktop' in that case:

    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
        spm_apikey: '<SPM_APIKEY>',
        ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
        headless: true,
        headers: {'X-Crawlera-No-Bancheck': '1', 'X-Crawlera-Profile': 'desktop', 'X-Crawlera-Cookies': 'disable'}
    });

• When connecting to a remote Chrome browser instance, it should be launched with these arguments:

--proxy-server=http://proxy.zyte.com:8011 --disable-site-isolation-trials

• Consider our new zyte-smartproxy-plugin for playwright-extra and puppeteer-extra frameworks.