Anti-Detect Browser Automation with patchright-cli

patchright-cli drives a real Chrome browser that passes bot detection (Cloudflare, Akamai, etc.). It works as a CLI: you issue commands, get back page state. This is the tool to reach for whenever regular Playwright or Chrome DevTools gets blocked.

Quick start

patchright-cli open https://example.com     # launch browser + navigate
patchright-cli snapshot                      # get element refs
# read the snapshot YAML to find the right ref, then:
patchright-cli click e5                      # interact by ref
patchright-cli fill e3 "search query"        # type into an input
patchright-cli press Enter                   # press a key
patchright-cli screenshot                    # capture the page
patchright-cli close                         # done

Every interaction follows: open -> snapshot -> read refs -> interact -> snapshot again -> repeat. Refs are ephemeral -- they change on every page update. If a ref fails, re-snapshot.