Playwright session persistance

playwright.js

const { chromium } = require('playwright');

async function createPersistentSession() {
  // Create a persistent context (saves cookies, localStorage, etc.)
  const context = await chromium.launchPersistentContext('./user-data', {
    headless: false, // Set to true for production
    viewport: { width: 1920, height: 1080 },
    userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
    args: [
      '--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled',
      '--disable-features=VizDisplayCompositor',
      '--no-first-run',
      '--disable-default-apps'
    ]
  });

  // Anti-detection setup
  await context.addInitScript(() => {
    Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', { get: () => undefined });
    window.chrome = { runtime: {} };
    Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'plugins', {
      get: () => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
    });
  });

  const page = await context.newPage();
  
  // First request - establish session
  await page.goto('https://example.com');
  await page.waitForTimeout(2000);
  
  return { context, page };
}

// Usage for subsequent requests
async function useExistingSession() {
  const context = await chromium.launchPersistentContext('./user-data', {
    headless: true // Session data persists
  });
  
  const page = await context.newPage();
  await page.goto('https://example.com/protected-page');
  
  return page;
}