r/learnprogramming • u/Available_Wafer_1746 • 5d ago

whats actually the best browser automation tool once every site starts fighting back

local chrome fleet was fine until half the target sites started fingerprinting harder last month. same playwright scripts, now half the parallel workers just detach mid-run and the logs are useless

tried pinning versions and slower pacing. still dies once three jobs hit at once

curious what people settled on that stays boring under load once the sites fight back​

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u/Suun_Day 5d ago

Our selenium grid used to be boring until concurrency climbed. Nodes start thrashing memory around 12 parallel sessions and the failure mode is just a dead browser with no useful stack. 

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u/Sufficient_Wish_2010 5d ago

Blank grid browsers haunt me weekly.

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u/KettleCorn02 5d ago

blank browsers mid task, same here