undetected-chromedriver/README.md

# undetected_chromedriver

https://github.com/ultrafunkamsterdam/undetected-chromedriver

Optimized Selenium Chromedriver patch which does not trigger anti-bot services like Distill Network.
Automatically downloads the driver binary and patches it.

* **Tested on version 75,76,77,78,79,80,81,83**

* **patching also works on MS Edge (chromium-based) webdriver binary**


## Installation ##
```
pip install  git+https://github.com/ultrafunkamsterdam/undetected-chromedriver.git
```

## Usage ##


#### the easy way (recommended) ####
```python
from undetected_chromedriver import Chrome, ChromeOptions
driver = Chrome()
driver.get('https://distilnetworks.com')
```


#### patches selenium module  ####
Needs to be done before importing from selenium package

```python
import undetected_chromedriver as uc
uc.install()
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
driver = Chrome()
driver.get('https://distilnetworks.com')
```` 


#### the customized way ####
```python
import undetected_chromedriver as uc

#specify chromedriver version to download and patch
#this did not work correctly until 1.2.1
uc.TARGET_VERSION = 78    

# or specify your own chromedriver binary to patch
undetected_chromedriver.install(
    executable_path='c:/users/user1/chromedriver.exe',
)
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome, ChromeOptions
opts = ChromeOptions()
opts.add_argument(f'--proxy-server=socks5://127.0.0.1:9050')
driver = Chrome(options=opts)
driver.get('https://distilnetworks.com')
```