======================== Chrome File Downloader

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The sole purpose of this package is to download files from the Internets with headless Chrome bypassing the Cloudflare and maybe some other annoying browser checks.

It does so by implementing the solutions posted in "bypass headless chrome detection issue" for chromedp.

This library may help you if the other download methods don't work, i.e. curl or the standard http.Get().

The implementation is based on this chromedp example_.

Thanks to @ZekeLu_ for huge help in getting this going.

Compatibility

Tested with:

• Chrome (stable) v90.0.4430.93.
• github.com/chromedp/chromedp v0.6.12
• github.com/chromedp/cdproto v0.0.0-20210323015217-0942afbea50e

Newer versions of Chrome will require some code changes, as described in this issue_, as it uses calls that are deprecated in newer protocol version in order to be compatible with current stable version of Chrome (see above).

When using headless-shell docker image, please use the following tag::

FROM chromedp/headless-shell:90.0.4430.93

LICENCES

chromedp_: Copyright (c) 2016-2020 Kenneth Shaw

.. _this issue: https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp/issues/807 .. _chromedp example: https://github.com/chromedp/examples/tree/master/download_file .. _@ZekeLu: https://github.com/ZekeLu .. _chromedp: https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp .. _bypass headless chrome detection issue: https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp/issues/396