# Patchright

Undetected version of the Playwright testing and automation library.

Repository: https://github.com/Kaliiiiiiiiii-Vinyzu/patchright
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/patchright
Homepage: https://playwright.dev/
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: automation, bot, bots, botting, browser, chrome, chromedriver, chromium, cloudflare, cloudflare-bypass, playwright, stealth, undetectable, undetected, web-automation, web-scraping, webautomation, webdriver, webscraping, antidetect
Last push: 2026-08-19T17:20:06+00:00
Link (homepage): https://playwright.dev/
Link (site_page): https://playwright.dev/docs/intro
Link (site_page): https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-playwright
Link (site_page): https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro
Link (site_page): https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/intro

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 98, longevity 73
- inputs: {"age_days": 1030, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": 16, "gap_med": 10, "n_releases_24m": 24}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4191, forks 201 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:38.767778+00:00)

## What it is
Patchright is a patched, undetected fork of the Playwright browser automation framework that evades bot-detection systems like Cloudflare. It works as a drop-in replacement for Playwright, available for Python, NodeJS, and .NET, but only supports Chromium-based browsers.

## Use cases
- scrape websites protected by Cloudflare bot detection
- automate browser tasks without being detected as a bot
- replace playwright with an undetected drop-in alternative
- run stealth browser automation scripts in python
- automate logins and form submissions on sites with bot checks
- control chromium headlessly for web automation

## When to choose
- you need Playwright's API but must bypass bot detection like Cloudflare
- you are automating Chromium and stealth matters
- you want a drop-in Playwright replacement for scraping or botting

## When to avoid
- you need Firefox or WebKit support
- you only need standard end-to-end testing without stealth
- you require a fully upstream-supported Playwright feature set

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, web-scraping, testing, e2e-testing
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, crawlers
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: playwright, undetected, stealth, antidetect, browser-automation, chromium, bot-detection-bypass, cloudflare-bypass, automation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Kaliiiiiiiiii-Vinyzu/patchright (main) score 93
- Kaliiiiiiiiii-Vinyzu/patchright-python (sdk) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:38.767778+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:35.806514+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Kaliiiiiiiiii-Vinyzu/patchright (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:38.767778+00:00, sha a55813823fb5)
  - homepage: https://playwright.dev/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.769196+00:00, sha 1df034c136e5)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.778824+00:00, sha ca82f3fc94fd)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-playwright (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.780814+00:00, sha 314ddc9f07f7)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.782458+00:00, sha 5c5822e2deaa)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.784156+00:00, sha a6ef7805c7ac)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/java/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.785928+00:00, sha 67158ea3c0a4)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/getting-started-cli (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.787607+00:00, sha 82b6590e3615)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/getting-started-mcp (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.789337+00:00, sha 6059653bd72c)
  - site_page: https://playwright.dev/docs/codegen (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:22.791113+00:00, sha a9c039d63017)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.