wabarc/starter

A tool for packaging and storing Chrome extensions are used with Xvfb

Starter

Starter is a tool for packaging and storing Chrome extensions are used with Xvfb.

Background

Websites may contain challenges such as paywalls and various CAPTCHAs, and quite well solutions including puppeteer-extra do not work in all cases. It is hoped that this project will provide a solution that, to some extent, reproduces the real browser workplace.

How it works

1. Packaging Chrome extensions into the binary.
2. Launching Chrome to load extensions with a specified directory to stores user data.
3. Launch a remote debugging browser with the flag --user-data-dir={workspace}/UserDataDir.

Note: remote debugging address is default to listen on 0.0.0.0:9222.

Prerequisite

• Go (requires Go 1.18 or later)
• GNU Make
• Docker/Podman

Building

File the secrets of buster to hack/secrets.json

make build

Installation

sh <(wget https://github.com/wabarc/starter/raw/main/install.sh -O-)

Or

curl -fsSL https://github.com/wabarc/starter/raw/main/install.sh | sh

Extensions

• bypass-paywalls
• dessant/buster
• gorhill/uBlock
• privacypass/challenge-bypass-extension
• n4cr/cookiepopupblocker
• Sainan/Universal-Bypass

License

This software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.