Website detects undetected bot about seleniumbase HOT 10 CLOSED

I did not know that. Thank you, it worked!

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Thanks a lot for the pointer! @mdmintz

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Sounds like you're trying to avoid detection after clicking a button to log in to a site.
You need to use the sb.driver.uc_click(selector) method in order to remain undetected.

Try these examples that use it:

• examples/raw_turnstile.py
• examples/raw_form_turnstile.py

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I thought that was the issue at the start too. So I tried doing everything manually except for starting up the browser instance. So going to the website is manually -> filling in the information and clicking the log in, but still it knows i'm using a bot instance. So 0 interaction with a script and the target website. So it made me think it's maybe the settings of the browser which make it flagged as bot..

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It's not so much your browser actions that get you detected, but mostly whether Selenium is connected to your browser when a website service is looking for it. UC Mode methods disconnect Selenium from the browser at specific times, and then reconnect after a few seconds (customizable).

If you want to perform manual action while in UC Mode, use this:

sb.driver.uc_open_with_reconnect(url, "breakpoint")

(Type c and press Enter to continue from the breakpoint.)

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Thanks for the explanation @mdmintz , I'm still amazed and don't fully understand why "reconnect" would work when CF is heavy on a website. Is it due to certain "port" being occupied when selenium is connected to browser and that's how CF detects it (and the reason reconnect works)?

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@Tongcheng reconnect() is a combination of three things:

• Stopping the WebDriver Service - https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/ad17dd21b7c0e46405995ef9c44f473c3958f912/py/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py#L135
• Sleeping for a few seconds.
• Restarting the WebDriver Service

After the WebDriver Service is stopped, Selenium is no longer attached to the web browser, and because of that, website services that try to detect Selenium won't find it.

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Great explanation @mdmintz ! I am curious if you know fundamentally (deeper inside chrome + selenium), how does detector able to tell "this browser is attached to selenium vs. not"?

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In other words @mdmintz , I am curious how you come up with idea, because when I did research, all evading direction seems to be "browser fingerprinting" etc., I didn't think it's some more fundamental attribute other than fingerprinting which could be detected

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There's an explanation here already: #2213

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