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Crawlee & Apify•3y ago
compatible-crimson

How to set 'locale' and 'timezoneId' on browsers or pages?

If in Playwright, I can create Page this way and set locale and TimezoneId 
   browser.newPage({
       locale: 'zh-TW',
       timezoneId: 'Asia/Taipei',
   });
   browser.newPage({
       locale: 'zh-TW',
       timezoneId: 'Asia/Taipei',
   });
But if using PlaywrightCrawler, how to set it up? Does anyone know how to solve this?
3 Replies
compatible-crimson
compatible-crimsonOP•3y ago
Finally I figured out how to set locales 
{
  preNavigationHooks: [
    async ({ request }, gotOptions) => {
      // https://github.com/apify/fingerprint-suite/blob/master/docs/guides/fingerprint-generator.md
      let fingerprintGenerator = new FingerprintGenerator({
        browsers: ['chrome', 'edge', 'firefox', 'safari'],
        devices: ['desktop'],
        locales: ['zh-TW'], // <======== here to set locales
        operatingSystems: ['windows'],
      });
      // here to override config
      gotOptions.headers = {
        ...fingerprintGenerator.getFingerprint().headers,
      };
    },
  ],
}
{
  preNavigationHooks: [
    async ({ request }, gotOptions) => {
      // https://github.com/apify/fingerprint-suite/blob/master/docs/guides/fingerprint-generator.md
      let fingerprintGenerator = new FingerprintGenerator({
        browsers: ['chrome', 'edge', 'firefox', 'safari'],
        devices: ['desktop'],
        locales: ['zh-TW'], // <======== here to set locales
        operatingSystems: ['windows'],
      });
      // here to override config
      gotOptions.headers = {
        ...fingerprintGenerator.getFingerprint().headers,
      };
    },
  ],
}
rare-sapphire
rare-sapphire•3y ago
Nice. You can also influence some browser properties via the launchContext https://crawlee.dev/api/playwright-crawler/interface/PlaywrightLaunchContext
PlaywrightLaunchContext | API | Crawlee
Apify extends the launch options of Playwright. You can use any of the Playwright compatible LaunchOptions options by providing the launchOptions property. Example: ```js // launch a headless Chrome (not Chromium) const launchContext = { // Apify helpers ...
compatible-crimson
compatible-crimsonOP•3y ago
Thanks I found that crawlee has built-in FingerprintGenerator, so it can be set by this 
new PlaywrightCrawler({
    browserPoolOptions: {
      fingerprintOptions: {
        fingerprintGeneratorOptions: {
          browsers: ['safari'],
          devices: ['mobile'],
          locales: ['zh', 'zh-CN', 'zh-TW'],
        },
      },
    })
new PlaywrightCrawler({
    browserPoolOptions: {
      fingerprintOptions: {
        fingerprintGeneratorOptions: {
          browsers: ['safari'],
          devices: ['mobile'],
          locales: ['zh', 'zh-CN', 'zh-TW'],
        },
      },
    })

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