not needed

Excluded Playwright from requirements.txt to
prevent arm/v6 and arm/v7 builds from failing.

Dockerfile

@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ COPY requirements.txt /requirements.txt
 
 RUN pip install --target=/dependencies -r /requirements.txt
 
+# Playwright is an alternative to Selenium
+# Excluded this package from requirements.txt to prevent arm/v6 and arm/v7 builds from failing
+RUN pip install --target=/dependencies playwright~=1.20 \
+    || echo "WARN: Failed to install Playwright. The application can still run, but the Playwright option will be disabled."
+
 # Final image stage
 FROM python:3.8-slim
 

changedetectionio/changedetection.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import sys
 
 import eventlet
 import eventlet.wsgi
-from . import store, changedetection_app
+from . import store, changedetection_app, content_fetcher
 from . import __version__
 
 def main():

changedetectionio/content_fetcher.py

@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 import chardet
 import os
-from selenium import webdriver
-from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
-from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import Proxy as SeleniumProxy
-from selenium.common.exceptions import WebDriverException
 import requests
 import time
 import urllib3.exceptions
+import sys
 
 
 class EmptyReply(Exception):
@@ -19,13 +16,15 @@ class EmptyReply(Exception):
 
     pass
 
+
 class Fetcher():
     error = None
     status_code = None
     content = None
     headers = None
-
-    fetcher_description ="No description"
+    # Will be needed in the future by the VisualSelector, always get this where possible.
+    screenshot = False
+    fetcher_description = "No description"
 
     @abstractmethod
     def get_error(self):
@@ -46,10 +45,6 @@ class Fetcher():
     def quit(self):
         return
 
-    @abstractmethod
-    def screenshot(self):
-        return
-
     @abstractmethod
     def get_last_status_code(self):
         return self.status_code
@@ -59,29 +54,109 @@ class Fetcher():
     def is_ready(self):
         return True
 
+
 #   Maybe for the future, each fetcher provides its own diff output, could be used for text, image
 #   the current one would return javascript output (as we use JS to generate the diff)
 #
-#   Returns tuple(mime_type, stream)
-#    @abstractmethod
-#    def return_diff(self, stream_a, stream_b):
-#        return
-
 def available_fetchers():
-        import inspect
-        from changedetectionio import content_fetcher
-        p=[]
-        for name, obj in inspect.getmembers(content_fetcher):
-            if inspect.isclass(obj):
-                # @todo html_ is maybe better as fetcher_ or something
-                # In this case, make sure to edit the default one in store.py and fetch_site_status.py
-                if "html_" in name:
-                    t=tuple([name,obj.fetcher_description])
-                    p.append(t)
+    # See the if statement at the bottom of this file for how we switch between playwright and webdriver
+    import inspect
+    p = []
+    for name, obj in inspect.getmembers(sys.modules[__name__], inspect.isclass):
+        if inspect.isclass(obj):
+            # @todo html_ is maybe better as fetcher_ or something
+            # In this case, make sure to edit the default one in store.py and fetch_site_status.py
+            if name.startswith('html_'):
+                t = tuple([name, obj.fetcher_description])
+                p.append(t)
 
-        return p
+    return p
 
-class html_webdriver(Fetcher):
+
+class base_html_playwright(Fetcher):
+    fetcher_description = "Playwright {}/Javascript".format(
+        os.getenv("PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSER_TYPE", 'chromium').capitalize()
+    )
+    if os.getenv("PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL"):
+        fetcher_description += " via '{}'".format(os.getenv("PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL"))
+
+#    try:
+#        from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
+#    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+#        fetcher_enabled = False
+
+    browser_type = ''
+    command_executor = ''
+
+    # Configs for Proxy setup
+    # In the ENV vars, is prefixed with "playwright_proxy_", so it is for example "playwright_proxy_server"
+    playwright_proxy_settings_mappings = ['server', 'bypass', 'username', 'password']
+
+    proxy = None
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        # .strip('"') is going to save someone a lot of time when they accidently wrap the env value
+        self.browser_type = os.getenv("PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSER_TYPE", 'chromium').strip('"')
+        self.command_executor = os.getenv(
+            "PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL",
+            'ws://playwright-chrome:3000/playwright'
+        ).strip('"')
+
+        # If any proxy settings are enabled, then we should setup the proxy object
+        proxy_args = {}
+        for k in self.playwright_proxy_settings_mappings:
+            v = os.getenv('playwright_proxy_' + k, False)
+            if v:
+                proxy_args[k] = v.strip('"')
+
+        if proxy_args:
+            self.proxy = proxy_args
+
+    def run(self,
+            url,
+            timeout,
+            request_headers,
+            request_body,
+            request_method,
+            ignore_status_codes=False):
+
+        from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright
+
+        with sync_playwright() as p:
+            browser_type = getattr(p, self.browser_type)
+
+            # Seemed to cause a connection Exception even tho I can see it connect
+            # self.browser = browser_type.connect(self.command_executor, timeout=timeout*1000)
+            browser = browser_type.connect_over_cdp(self.command_executor, timeout=timeout * 1000)
+
+            # Set user agent to prevent Cloudflare from blocking the browser
+            context = browser.new_context(
+                user_agent="Mozilla/5.0",
+                proxy=self.proxy
+            )
+            page = context.new_page()
+            page.set_viewport_size({"width": 1280, "height": 1024})
+            response = page.goto(url, timeout=timeout * 1000)
+
+            extra_wait = int(os.getenv("WEBDRIVER_DELAY_BEFORE_CONTENT_READY", 5))
+            page.wait_for_timeout(extra_wait * 1000)
+
+            if response is None:
+                raise EmptyReply(url=url, status_code=None)
+
+            self.status_code = response.status
+            self.content = page.content()
+            self.headers = response.all_headers()
+
+            # Some bug where it gives the wrong screenshot size, but making a request with the clip set first seems to solve it
+            # JPEG is better here because the screenshots can be very very large
+            page.screenshot(type='jpeg', clip={'x': 1.0, 'y': 1.0, 'width': 1280, 'height': 1024})
+            self.screenshot = page.screenshot(type='jpeg', full_page=True, quality=90)
+            context.close()
+            browser.close()
+
+
+class base_html_webdriver(Fetcher):
     if os.getenv("WEBDRIVER_URL"):
         fetcher_description = "WebDriver Chrome/Javascript via '{}'".format(os.getenv("WEBDRIVER_URL"))
     else:
@@ -94,12 +169,11 @@ class html_webdriver(Fetcher):
     selenium_proxy_settings_mappings = ['proxyType', 'ftpProxy', 'httpProxy', 'noProxy',
                                         'proxyAutoconfigUrl', 'sslProxy', 'autodetect',
                                         'socksProxy', 'socksVersion', 'socksUsername', 'socksPassword']
-
-
-
-    proxy=None
+    proxy = None
 
     def __init__(self):
+        from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import Proxy as SeleniumProxy
+
         # .strip('"') is going to save someone a lot of time when they accidently wrap the env value
         self.command_executor = os.getenv("WEBDRIVER_URL", 'http://browser-chrome:4444/wd/hub').strip('"')
 
@@ -121,6 +195,9 @@ class html_webdriver(Fetcher):
             request_method,
             ignore_status_codes=False):
 
+        from selenium import webdriver
+        from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
+        from selenium.common.exceptions import WebDriverException
         # request_body, request_method unused for now, until some magic in the future happens.
 
         # check env for WEBDRIVER_URL
@@ -145,9 +222,8 @@ class html_webdriver(Fetcher):
         time.sleep(int(os.getenv("WEBDRIVER_DELAY_BEFORE_CONTENT_READY", 5)))
         self.content = self.driver.page_source
         self.headers = {}
-
-    def screenshot(self):
-        return self.driver.get_screenshot_as_png()
+        self.screenshot = self.driver.get_screenshot_as_png()
+        self.quit()
 
     # Does the connection to the webdriver work? run a test connection.
     def is_ready(self):
@@ -170,6 +246,7 @@ class html_webdriver(Fetcher):
             except Exception as e:
                 print("Exception in chrome shutdown/quit" + str(e))
 
+
 # "html_requests" is listed as the default fetcher in store.py!
 class html_requests(Fetcher):
     fetcher_description = "Basic fast Plaintext/HTTP Client"
@@ -183,11 +260,11 @@ class html_requests(Fetcher):
             ignore_status_codes=False):
 
         r = requests.request(method=request_method,
-                         data=request_body,
-                         url=url,
-                         headers=request_headers,
-                         timeout=timeout,
-                         verify=False)
+                             data=request_body,
+                             url=url,
+                             headers=request_headers,
+                             timeout=timeout,
+                             verify=False)
 
         # If the response did not tell us what encoding format to expect, Then use chardet to override what `requests` thinks.
         # For example - some sites don't tell us it's utf-8, but return utf-8 content
@@ -207,3 +284,11 @@ class html_requests(Fetcher):
         self.content = r.text
         self.headers = r.headers
 
+
+# Decide which is the 'real' HTML webdriver, this is more a system wide config
+# rather than site-specific.
+use_playwright_as_chrome_fetcher = os.getenv('PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL', False)
+if use_playwright_as_chrome_fetcher:
+    html_webdriver = base_html_playwright
+else:
+    html_webdriver = base_html_webdriver

changedetectionio/fetch_site_status.py

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ class perform_site_check():
 
         fetcher = klass()
         fetcher.run(url, timeout, request_headers, request_body, request_method, ignore_status_code)
+
         # Fetching complete, now filters
         # @todo move to class / maybe inside of fetcher abstract base?
 
@@ -192,9 +193,4 @@ class perform_site_check():
                 if not watch['title'] or not len(watch['title']):
                     update_obj['title'] = html_tools.extract_element(find='title', html_content=fetcher.content)
 
-        if self.datastore.data['settings']['application'].get('real_browser_save_screenshot', True):
-            screenshot = fetcher.screenshot()
-
-        fetcher.quit()
-
-        return changed_detected, update_obj, text_content_before_ignored_filter, screenshot
+        return changed_detected, update_obj, text_content_before_ignored_filter, fetcher.screenshot

docker-compose.yml

@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ services:
   #
   #             https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html#module-selenium.webdriver.common.proxy
   #
+  #       Alternative Playwright URL, do not use "'s or 's!
+  #      - PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL=ws://playwright-chrome:3000/playwright
+  #
+  #       Playwright proxy settings playwright_proxy_server, playwright_proxy_bypass, playwright_proxy_username, playwright_proxy_password
+  #
+  #             https://playwright.dev/python/docs/api/class-browsertype#browser-type-launch-option-proxy
+  #
   #        Plain requsts - proxy support example.
   #      - HTTP_PROXY=socks5h://10.10.1.10:1080
   #      - HTTPS_PROXY=socks5h://10.10.1.10:1080
@@ -58,6 +65,13 @@ services:
 #            # Workaround to avoid the browser crashing inside a docker container
 #            # See https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium#quick-start
 #            - /dev/shm:/dev/shm
+#        restart: unless-stopped
+
+     # Used for fetching pages via Playwright+Chrome where you need Javascript support.
+
+#    playwright-chrome:
+#        hostname: playwright-chrome
+#        image: browserless/chrome
 #        restart: unless-stopped
 
 volumes:

requirements.txt

@@ -40,3 +40,4 @@ selenium ~= 4.1.0
 # need to revisit flask login versions
 werkzeug ~= 2.0.0
 
+# playwright is installed at Dockerfile build time because it's not available on all platforms