Patchright
Control Chromium with Playwright-style code and stealth patches.
29 September 2026 · three fixed sites · 24 attempts · no proxy
Solo and three concurrent browsers
Patchright 1.63.0 and Camoufox 0.5.6, with two repetitions per mode on the same Web Scraping Dev, eBay and Indeed URLs. Compare content checks, capture time, worker-tree and aggregate peak PSS. Inspect every attempt and the exact guarded code; browser engines, filtering and fingerprints differ.
Inspect the resource and outcome comparison29 September 2026 · frozen public-30-v1 · no proxy
Patchright on all 30 public targets
A fresh local browser per target, one navigation each, sequentially. Inspect every required-content check and failure beside Lightpanda and the corrected wreq baseline. Dates, browser-resource and redirect differences are visible; one attempt per target does not establish a global winner.
Compare all 30 targets across three tools29 September 2026 · this host · no proxy
One Patchright run on Amazon laptop search
Patchright 1.63.0 returned HTTP 200 with 16 product result cards on the exact Amazon URL used by the wreq slice. The screenshot shows laptop listings; the content check found no recognized challenge or empty page. In a separate attempt minutes later on this host, Camoufox received HTTP 503. These two attempts do not establish a success rate or detection advantage.
29 September 2026 · same host and URL · no proxy
Three-worker Amazon search batches
In separate batches, Patchright returned product listings in all three attempts; Camoufox returned listings in two and an HTTP 503 error page in one. All three Patchright navigations overlapped, while only two Camoufox navigations overlapped because browser startup staggered them. The sampled batch PSS peaks were 1,274 and 1,651 MiB respectively. These small, sequential batches do not establish a general reliability, detection, or resource advantage.
Inspect all six attempts and raw capturesSeptember 2026 field test
Patchright and Camoufox on the same pages
One scrape per page plus three browsers at once. Patchright used less memory in this sample; the test does not prove a general bypass advantage. Inspect the exact statuses, screenshots, and script before using it for a real job.
Inspect the comparisonPublished test history
These May 2026 runs used one network without a proxy. Their pass counts describe those older attempts, not how the tool will perform today.
| Mode | Date | Version | Observed result | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| patchright | 2026-05-24 | 1.60.0 | 3/21 required-content checks | No proxy |
Where it fits
If you're already invested in Playwright and want a free lottery ticket against detectors, it costs nothing to swap in. Don't expect headless-without-proxy miracles; test your specific targets before believing any stealth claim, including this one.
This guidance comes from the May 2026 review. Check a recent run before choosing for production.
What it can do
- Keep a browser session
- Render JavaScript
- Use a proxy
- Take screenshots
Capabilities are catalog notes, not outcomes from the benchmark above.
Project record
- Type
- Use a browser
- Ecosystem
- python
- Repo check
- Not checked
- License
- Not recorded
Repository metadata is a dated snapshot, not a live health guarantee.
See how we validate pages, including what a pass does and does not mean.