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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

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Re: Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

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Does walmart keep prompting you with "Press and hold" anti bot requests? I have a similar project and keep getting these on walmart.

Nope! Not even once, which surprised me. We've done about 6 grocery runs with it now, and it's never been blocked by any anti-bot detection. Maybe it's because I'm signed into my Walmart account already, or because it's using Chrome's devtools protocol to control the browser instead of something like Puppeteer?

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Re: Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does walmart keep prompting you with "Press and hold" anti bot requests? I have a similar project and keep getting these on walmart.

Nope! Not even once, which surprised me. We've done about 6 grocery runs with it now, and it's never been blocked by any anti-bot detection. Maybe it's because I'm signed into my Walmart account already, or because it's using Chrome's devtools protocol to control the browser instead of something like Puppeteer?

You being authenticated is probably the big helper, yes.

Re: Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

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Hi, I’m the creator of Obscura. This has been a pretty strange few days. I had no idea Cloudflare had tried porting Obscura until I read this post. Seeing something I built mentioned as the starting point for Kitesurf is an honor, and I appreciate the team giving the project credit.

From what I understand, Kitesurf eventually went in its own direction and isn’t simply Obscura running on Workers. Still, knowing that Obscura helped get the original experiment started means a lot.

I recently added native rendering to Obscura. It can now take screenshots, stream screencasts, and generate PDFs without Chromium. The repository has also passed 21,000 stars.

For context, I’m 16 and have mostly been building this with my friend, so I’m still figuring out what the project should become and how to keep developing it sustainably.

Happy to answer any questions about Obscura or the rendering work.

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