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Playwright Stealth Mode for B2B Scraping

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Vanilla Playwright is detected and blocked almost immediately by enterprise targets like LinkedIn and Salesforce. The solution is a three-layer approach: First, install playwright-stealth and apply it via stealth(page) before any navigation — this patches 23+ browser fingerprinting vectors. Second, rotate User-Agents dynamically on each session using a curated list of modern Chrome versions, not random strings. Third, inject human-like mouse movement by scripting bezier-curve paths with page.mouse.move() at random intervals between actions. Combining all three reduces bot detection by approximately 80% on strict targets in production B2B scraping pipelines. Tested across LinkedIn, Apollo, and proprietary enterprise dashboards. Source: personal production testing, 2026.