0.45.23

changedetectionio/__init__.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # Read more https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki
 
-__version__ = '0.45.22'
+__version__ = '0.45.23'
 
 from changedetectionio.strtobool import strtobool
 from json.decoder import JSONDecodeError

changedetectionio/content_fetchers/puppeteer.py

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ from loguru import logger
 from changedetectionio.content_fetchers.base import Fetcher, manage_user_agent
 from changedetectionio.content_fetchers.exceptions import PageUnloadable, Non200ErrorCodeReceived, EmptyReply, BrowserFetchTimedOut, BrowserConnectError
 
-
 class fetcher(Fetcher):
     fetcher_description = "Puppeteer/direct {}/Javascript".format(
         os.getenv("PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSER_TYPE", 'chromium').capitalize()
@@ -93,15 +92,39 @@ class fetcher(Fetcher):
                                                        ignoreHTTPSErrors=True
                                                        )
         except websockets.exceptions.InvalidStatusCode as e:
-            raise BrowserConnectError(msg=f"Error while trying to connect the browser, Code {e.status_code} (check your access)")
+            raise BrowserConnectError(msg=f"Error while trying to connect the browser, Code {e.status_code} (check your access, whitelist IP, password etc)")
         except websockets.exceptions.InvalidURI:
             raise BrowserConnectError(msg=f"Error connecting to the browser, check your browser connection address (should be ws:// or wss://")
         except Exception as e:
             raise BrowserConnectError(msg=f"Error connecting to the browser {str(e)}")
-        else:
-            self.page = await browser.newPage()
 
-        await self.page.setUserAgent(manage_user_agent(headers=request_headers, current_ua=await self.page.evaluate('navigator.userAgent')))
+        # Better is to launch chrome with the URL as arg
+        # non-headless - newPage() will launch an extra tab/window, .browser should already contain 1 page/tab
+        # headless - ask a new page
+        self.page = (pages := await browser.pages) and len(pages) or await browser.newPage()
+
+        try:
+            from pyppeteerstealth import inject_evasions_into_page
+        except ImportError:
+            logger.debug("pyppeteerstealth module not available, skipping")
+            pass
+        else:
+            # I tried hooking events via self.page.on(Events.Page.DOMContentLoaded, inject_evasions_requiring_obj_to_page)
+            # But I could never get it to fire reliably, so we just inject it straight after
+            await inject_evasions_into_page(self.page)
+
+        # This user agent is similar to what was used when tweaking the evasions in inject_evasions_into_page(..)
+        user_agent = None
+        if request_headers:
+            user_agent = next((value for key, value in request_headers.items() if key.lower().strip() == 'user-agent'), None)
+            if user_agent:
+                await self.page.setUserAgent(user_agent)
+                # Remove it so it's not sent again with headers after
+                [request_headers.pop(key) for key in list(request_headers) if key.lower().strip() == 'user-agent'.lower().strip()]
+
+        if not user_agent:
+            # Attempt to strip 'HeadlessChrome' etc
+            await self.page.setUserAgent(manage_user_agent(headers=request_headers, current_ua=await self.page.evaluate('navigator.userAgent')))
 
         await self.page.setBypassCSP(True)
         if request_headers:

changedetectionio/content_fetchers/requests.py

@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ class fetcher(Fetcher):
         if self.browser_steps_get_valid_steps():
             raise BrowserStepsInUnsupportedFetcher(url=url)
 
-        # Make requests use a more modern looking user-agent
-        if not {k.lower(): v for k, v in request_headers.items()}.get('user-agent', None):
-            request_headers['User-Agent'] = os.getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT",
-                                                      'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36')
-
         proxies = {}
 
         # Allows override the proxy on a per-request basis

changedetectionio/flask_app.py

@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ def changedetection_app(config=None, datastore_o=None):
                                      jq_support=jq_support,
                                      playwright_enabled=os.getenv('PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL', False),
                                      settings_application=datastore.data['settings']['application'],
-                                     using_global_webdriver_wait=default['webdriver_delay'] is None,
+                                     using_global_webdriver_wait=not default['webdriver_delay'],
                                      uuid=uuid,
                                      visualselector_enabled=visualselector_enabled,
                                      watch=watch

changedetectionio/forms.py

@@ -526,6 +526,10 @@ class SingleExtraBrowser(Form):
     browser_connection_url = StringField('Browser connection URL', [validators.Optional()], render_kw={"placeholder": "wss://brightdata... wss://oxylabs etc", "size":50})
     # @todo do the validation here instead
 
+class DefaultUAInputForm(Form):
+    html_requests = StringField('Plaintext requests', validators=[validators.Optional()], render_kw={"placeholder": "<default>"})
+    if os.getenv("PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL") or os.getenv("WEBDRIVER_URL"):
+        html_webdriver = StringField('Chrome requests', validators=[validators.Optional()], render_kw={"placeholder": "<default>"})
 
 # datastore.data['settings']['requests']..
 class globalSettingsRequestForm(Form):
@@ -537,6 +541,8 @@ class globalSettingsRequestForm(Form):
     extra_proxies = FieldList(FormField(SingleExtraProxy), min_entries=5)
     extra_browsers = FieldList(FormField(SingleExtraBrowser), min_entries=5)
 
+    default_ua = FormField(DefaultUAInputForm, label="Default User-Agent overrides")
+
     def validate_extra_proxies(self, extra_validators=None):
         for e in self.data['extra_proxies']:
             if e.get('proxy_name') or e.get('proxy_url'):

changedetectionio/model/App.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from changedetectionio.notification import (
 )
 
 _FILTER_FAILURE_THRESHOLD_ATTEMPTS_DEFAULT = 6
+DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.66 Safari/537.36'
 
 class model(dict):
     base_config = {
@@ -22,6 +23,10 @@ class model(dict):
                     'time_between_check': {'weeks': None, 'days': None, 'hours': 3, 'minutes': None, 'seconds': None},
                     'timeout': int(getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_REQUESTS_TIMEOUT", "45")),  # Default 45 seconds
                     'workers': int(getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_REQUESTS_WORKERS", "10")),  # Number of threads, lower is better for slow connections
+                    'default_ua': {
+                        'html_requests': getenv("DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT", DEFAULT_SETTINGS_HEADERS_USERAGENT),
+                        'html_webdriver': None,
+                    }
                 },
                 'application': {
                     # Custom notification content

changedetectionio/processors/__init__.py

@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ class difference_detection_processor():
         request_headers.update(self.datastore.get_all_base_headers())
         request_headers.update(self.datastore.get_all_headers_in_textfile_for_watch(uuid=self.watch.get('uuid')))
 
+        ua = self.datastore.data['settings']['requests'].get('default_ua')
+        if ua and ua.get(prefer_fetch_backend):
+            request_headers.update({'User-Agent': ua.get(prefer_fetch_backend)})
+
         # https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/4525
         # Requests doesnt yet support brotli encoding, so don't put 'br' here, be totally sure that the user cannot
         # do this by accident.

changedetectionio/store.py

@@ -554,7 +554,6 @@ class ChangeDetectionStore:
         return os.path.isfile(filepath)
 
     def get_all_base_headers(self):
-        from .model.App import parse_headers_from_text_file
         headers = {}
         # Global app settings
         headers.update(self.data['settings'].get('headers', {}))

changedetectionio/templates/base.html

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" >
     <meta name="description" content="Self hosted website change detection." >
     <title>Change Detection{{extra_title}}</title>
-    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Changedetection.io » Feed{% if active_tag %}- {{active_tag}}{% endif %}" href="{{ url_for('rss', tag=active_tag , token=app_rss_token)}}" >
+    {% if app_rss_token %}
+      <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Changedetection.io » Feed{% if active_tag_uuid %}- {{active_tag.title}}{% endif %}" href="{{ url_for('rss', tag=active_tag_uuid , token=app_rss_token)}}" >
+    {% endif %}
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{url_for('static_content', group='styles', filename='pure-min.css')}}" >
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{url_for('static_content', group='styles', filename='styles.css')}}?v={{ get_css_version() }}" >
     {% if extra_stylesheets %}
@@ -83,8 +85,8 @@
           <li class="pure-menu-item pure-form" id="search-menu-item">
             <!-- We use GET here so it offers people a chance to set bookmarks etc -->
             <form name="searchForm" action="" method="GET">
-              <input id="search-q" class="" name="q" placeholder="URL or Title {% if active_tag %}in '{{ active_tag }}'{% endif %}" required="" type="text" value="">
-              <input name="tags" type="hidden" value="{% if active_tag %}{{active_tag}}{% endif %}">
+              <input id="search-q" class="" name="q" placeholder="URL or Title {% if active_tag_uuid %}in '{{ active_tag.title }}'{% endif %}" required="" type="text" value="">
+              <input name="tags" type="hidden" value="{% if active_tag_uuid %}{{active_tag_uuid}}{% endif %}">
               <button class="toggle-button " id="toggle-search" type="button" title="Search, or Use Alt+S Key" >
                 {% include "svgs/search-icon.svg" %}
               </button>

changedetectionio/templates/edit.html

@@ -433,7 +433,8 @@ Unavailable") }}
                     <div class="pure-control-group">
                         {% if visualselector_enabled %}
                             <span class="pure-form-message-inline">
-                                The Visual Selector tool lets you select the <i>text</i> elements that will be used for the change detection &dash; after the <i>Browser Steps</i> has completed, this tool is a helper to manage filters in the  "CSS/JSONPath/JQ/XPath Filters" box of the <a href="#filters-and-triggers">Filters & Triggers</a> tab.
+                                The Visual Selector tool lets you select the <i>text</i> elements that will be used for the change detection &dash; after the <i>Browser Steps</i> has completed.<br>
+                                This tool is a helper to manage filters in the  "CSS/JSONPath/JQ/XPath Filters" box of the <a href="#filters-and-triggers">Filters & Triggers</a> tab.
                             </span>
 
                             <div id="selector-header">

changedetectionio/templates/settings.html

@@ -108,8 +108,6 @@
                         <p>Use the <strong>Basic</strong> method (default) where your watched sites don't need Javascript to render.</p>
                         <p>The <strong>Chrome/Javascript</strong> method requires a network connection to a running WebDriver+Chrome server, set by the ENV var 'WEBDRIVER_URL'. </p>
                     </span>
-                    <br>
-                    Tip: <a href="https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Proxy-configuration#brightdata-proxy-support">Connect using Bright Data and Oxylabs Proxies, find out more here.</a>
                 </div>
                 <fieldset class="pure-group" id="webdriver-override-options" data-visible-for="application-fetch_backend=html_webdriver">
                     <div class="pure-form-message-inline">
@@ -121,6 +119,18 @@
                         {{ render_field(form.application.form.webdriver_delay) }}
                     </div>
                 </fieldset>
+                <div class="pure-control-group inline-radio">
+                    {{ render_field(form.requests.form.default_ua) }}
+                    <span class="pure-form-message-inline">
+                        Applied to all requests.<br><br>
+                        Note: Simply changing the User-Agent often does not defeat anti-robot technologies, it's important to consider <a href="https://changedetection.io/tutorial/what-are-main-types-anti-robot-mechanisms">all of the ways that the browser is detected</a>.
+                    </span>
+                </div>
+                <div class="pure-control-group">
+                                        <br>
+                    Tip: <a href="https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io/wiki/Proxy-configuration#brightdata-proxy-support">Connect using Bright Data and Oxylabs Proxies, find out more here.</a>
+
+                </div>
             </div>
 
             <div class="tab-pane-inner" id="filters">
@@ -190,7 +200,7 @@ nav
                         <a id="chrome-extension-link"
                            title="Try our new Chrome Extension!"
                            href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/changedetectionio-website/kefcfmgmlhmankjmnbijimhofdjekbop">
-                            <img src="{{ url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='Google-Chrome-icon.png') }}">
+                            <img src="{{ url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='Google-Chrome-icon.png') }}" alt="Chrome">
                             Chrome Webstore
                         </a>
                     </p>

changedetectionio/templates/watch-overview.html

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
             <div id="watch-add-wrapper-zone">
 
                     {{ render_nolabel_field(form.url, placeholder="https://...", required=true) }}
-                    {{ render_nolabel_field(form.tags, value=active_tag.title if active_tag else '', placeholder="watch label / tag") }}
+                    {{ render_nolabel_field(form.tags, value=active_tag.title if active_tag_uuid else '', placeholder="watch label / tag") }}
                     {{ render_nolabel_field(form.watch_submit_button, title="Watch this URL!" ) }}
                     {{ render_nolabel_field(form.edit_and_watch_submit_button, title="Edit first then Watch") }}
             </div>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     {% endif %}
     {% if search_q %}<div id="search-result-info">Searching "<strong><i>{{search_q}}</i></strong>"</div>{% endif %}
     <div>
-        <a href="{{url_for('index')}}" class="pure-button button-tag {{'active' if not active_tag }}">All</a>
+        <a href="{{url_for('index')}}" class="pure-button button-tag {{'active' if not active_tag_uuid }}">All</a>
 
     <!-- tag list -->
     {% for uuid, tag in tags %}
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@
             <tr>
                 {% set link_order = "desc" if sort_order  == 'asc' else "asc" %}
                 {% set arrow_span = "" %}
-                <th><input style="vertical-align: middle" type="checkbox" id="check-all" > <a class="{{ 'active '+link_order if sort_attribute == 'date_created' else 'inactive' }}"  href="{{url_for('index', sort='date_created', order=link_order, tag=active_tag)}}"># <span class='arrow {{link_order}}'></span></a></th>
+                <th><input style="vertical-align: middle" type="checkbox" id="check-all" > <a class="{{ 'active '+link_order if sort_attribute == 'date_created' else 'inactive' }}"  href="{{url_for('index', sort='date_created', order=link_order, tag=active_tag_uuid)}}"># <span class='arrow {{link_order}}'></span></a></th>
                 <th></th>
-                <th><a class="{{ 'active '+link_order if sort_attribute == 'label' else 'inactive' }}" href="{{url_for('index', sort='label', order=link_order, tag=active_tag)}}">Website <span class='arrow {{link_order}}'></span></a></th>
-                <th><a class="{{ 'active '+link_order if sort_attribute == 'last_checked' else 'inactive' }}" href="{{url_for('index', sort='last_checked', order=link_order, tag=active_tag)}}">Last Checked <span class='arrow {{link_order}}'></span></a></th>
-                <th><a class="{{ 'active '+link_order if sort_attribute == 'last_changed' else 'inactive' }}" href="{{url_for('index', sort='last_changed', order=link_order, tag=active_tag)}}">Last Changed <span class='arrow {{link_order}}'></span></a></th>
+                <th><a class="{{ 'active '+link_order if sort_attribute == 'label' else 'inactive' }}" href="{{url_for('index', sort='label', order=link_order, tag=active_tag_uuid)}}">Website <span class='arrow {{link_order}}'></span></a></th>
+                <th><a class="{{ 'active '+link_order if sort_attribute == 'last_checked' else 'inactive' }}" href="{{url_for('index', sort='last_checked', order=link_order, tag=active_tag_uuid)}}">Last Checked <span class='arrow {{link_order}}'></span></a></th>
+                <th><a class="{{ 'active '+link_order if sort_attribute == 'last_changed' else 'inactive' }}" href="{{url_for('index', sort='last_changed', order=link_order, tag=active_tag_uuid)}}">Last Changed <span class='arrow {{link_order}}'></span></a></th>
                 <th></th>
             </tr>
             </thead>
@@ -95,11 +95,11 @@
                 <td class="inline checkbox-uuid" ><input name="uuids"  type="checkbox" value="{{ watch.uuid}} " > <span>{{ loop.index+pagination.skip }}</span></td>
                 <td class="inline watch-controls">
                     {% if not watch.paused %}
-                    <a class="state-off" href="{{url_for('index', op='pause', uuid=watch.uuid, tag=active_tag)}}"><img src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='pause.svg')}}" alt="Pause checks" title="Pause checks" class="icon icon-pause" ></a>
+                    <a class="state-off" href="{{url_for('index', op='pause', uuid=watch.uuid, tag=active_tag_uuid)}}"><img src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='pause.svg')}}" alt="Pause checks" title="Pause checks" class="icon icon-pause" ></a>
                     {% else %}
-                    <a class="state-on" href="{{url_for('index', op='pause', uuid=watch.uuid, tag=active_tag)}}"><img src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='play.svg')}}" alt="UnPause checks" title="UnPause checks" class="icon icon-unpause" ></a>
+                    <a class="state-on" href="{{url_for('index', op='pause', uuid=watch.uuid, tag=active_tag_uuid)}}"><img src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='play.svg')}}" alt="UnPause checks" title="UnPause checks" class="icon icon-unpause" ></a>
                     {% endif %}
-                    <a class="link-mute state-{{'on' if watch.notification_muted else 'off'}}" href="{{url_for('index', op='mute', uuid=watch.uuid, tag=active_tag)}}"><img src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='bell-off.svg')}}" alt="Mute notifications" title="Mute notifications" class="icon icon-mute" ></a>
+                    <a class="link-mute state-{{'on' if watch.notification_muted else 'off'}}" href="{{url_for('index', op='mute', uuid=watch.uuid, tag=active_tag_uuid)}}"><img src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='bell-off.svg')}}" alt="Mute notifications" title="Mute notifications" class="icon icon-mute" ></a>
                 </td>
                 <td class="title-col inline">{{watch.title if watch.title is not none and watch.title|length > 0 else watch.url}}
                     <a class="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="{{ watch.link.replace('source:','') }}"></a>
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
                 all {% if active_tag_uuid %} in "{{active_tag.title}}"{%endif%}</a>
             </li>
             <li>
-                <a href="{{ url_for('rss', tag=active_tag , token=app_rss_token)}}"><img alt="RSS Feed" id="feed-icon" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='Generic_Feed-icon.svg')}}" height="15"></a>
+                <a href="{{ url_for('rss', tag=active_tag_uuid, token=app_rss_token)}}"><img alt="RSS Feed" id="feed-icon" src="{{url_for('static_content', group='images', filename='Generic_Feed-icon.svg')}}" height="15"></a>
             </li>
         </ul>
         {{ pagination.links }}

changedetectionio/tests/test_request.py

@@ -256,12 +256,40 @@ def test_method_in_request(client, live_server):
 def test_headers_textfile_in_request(client, live_server):
     #live_server_setup(live_server)
     # Add our URL to the import page
+
+    webdriver_ua = "Hello fancy webdriver UA 1.0"
+    requests_ua = "Hello basic requests UA 1.1"
+
     test_url = url_for('test_headers', _external=True)
     if os.getenv('PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL'):
         # Because its no longer calling back to localhost but from the browser container, set in test-only.yml
         test_url = test_url.replace('localhost', 'cdio')
 
-    print ("TEST URL IS ",test_url)
+    form_data = {
+        "application-fetch_backend": "html_requests",
+        "application-minutes_between_check": 180,
+        "requests-default_ua-html_requests": requests_ua
+    }
+
+    if os.getenv('PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL'):
+        form_data["requests-default_ua-html_webdriver"] = webdriver_ua
+
+    res = client.post(
+        url_for("settings_page"),
+        data=form_data,
+        follow_redirects=True
+    )
+    assert b'Settings updated' in res.data
+
+    res = client.get(url_for("settings_page"))
+
+    # Only when some kind of real browser is setup
+    if os.getenv('PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL'):
+        assert b'requests-default_ua-html_webdriver' in res.data
+
+    # Field should always be there
+    assert b"requests-default_ua-html_requests" in res.data
+
     # Add the test URL twice, we will check
     res = client.post(
         url_for("import_page"),
@@ -272,15 +300,14 @@ def test_headers_textfile_in_request(client, live_server):
 
     wait_for_all_checks(client)
 
-
     # Add some headers to a request
     res = client.post(
         url_for("edit_page", uuid="first"),
         data={
-              "url": test_url,
-              "tags": "testtag",
-              "fetch_backend": 'html_webdriver' if os.getenv('PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL') else 'html_requests',
-              "headers": "xxx:ooo\ncool:yeah\r\n"},
+            "url": test_url,
+            "tags": "testtag",
+            "fetch_backend": 'html_webdriver' if os.getenv('PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL') else 'html_requests',
+            "headers": "xxx:ooo\ncool:yeah\r\n"},
         follow_redirects=True
     )
     assert b"Updated watch." in res.data
@@ -292,7 +319,7 @@ def test_headers_textfile_in_request(client, live_server):
     with open('test-datastore/headers.txt', 'w') as f:
         f.write("global-header: nice\r\nnext-global-header: nice")
 
-    with open('test-datastore/'+extract_UUID_from_client(client)+'/headers.txt', 'w') as f:
+    with open('test-datastore/' + extract_UUID_from_client(client) + '/headers.txt', 'w') as f:
         f.write("watch-header: nice")
 
     client.get(url_for("form_watch_checknow"), follow_redirects=True)
@@ -306,7 +333,7 @@ def test_headers_textfile_in_request(client, live_server):
     # Not needed anymore
     os.unlink('test-datastore/headers.txt')
     os.unlink('test-datastore/headers-testtag.txt')
-    os.unlink('test-datastore/'+extract_UUID_from_client(client)+'/headers.txt')
+    os.unlink('test-datastore/' + extract_UUID_from_client(client) + '/headers.txt')
     # The service should echo back the request verb
     res = client.get(
         url_for("preview_page", uuid="first"),
@@ -319,7 +346,12 @@ def test_headers_textfile_in_request(client, live_server):
     assert b"Watch-Header:nice" in res.data
     assert b"Tag-Header:test" in res.data
 
+    # Check the custom UA from system settings page made it through
+    if os.getenv('PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL'):
+        assert "User-Agent:".encode('utf-8') + webdriver_ua.encode('utf-8') in res.data
+    else:
+        assert "User-Agent:".encode('utf-8') + requests_ua.encode('utf-8') in res.data
 
-    #unlink headers.txt on start/stop
+    # unlink headers.txt on start/stop
     res = client.get(url_for("form_delete", uuid="all"), follow_redirects=True)
-    assert b'Deleted' in res.data
+    assert b'Deleted' in res.data

requirements.txt

@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ jq~=1.3; python_version >= "3.8" and sys_platform == "linux"
 pillow
 # playwright is installed at Dockerfile build time because it's not available on all platforms
 
-# experimental release
 pyppeteer-ng==2.0.0rc5
+pyppeteerstealth>=0.0.4
 
 # Include pytest, so if theres a support issue we can ask them to run these tests on their setup
 pytest ~=7.2