Force language?

Hello, In general on Apify, it is possible to force the browser language? (example: fr or es or en) I have tested with:

"proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "countryCode": "FR",
    "apifyProxyCountry": "FR"
  },
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "countryCode": "FR",
    "apifyProxyCountry": "FR"
  },

"proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "countryCode": "FR",
    "apifyProxyCountry": "FR"
  },
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "countryCode": "FR",
    "apifyProxyCountry": "FR"
  },

5 Replies

Hall•3mo ago

Someone will reply to you shortly. In the meantime, this might help:

Pepa J•3mo ago

Hi @Nico64 , code sample that you mentioned is related to the setup of Proxy configuration. You should be able to set a a browser language via launch arguments in Crawler defition. For example for Chrome and German language it should be:

const crawler = new PuppeteerCrawler({
    proxyConfiguration,
    requestHandler: router,
    launchContext: {
        launchOptions: {
            args: [
                '--accept-lang=de',
                '--lang=de',
            ],
        },
    },
});

const crawler = new PuppeteerCrawler({
    proxyConfiguration,
    requestHandler: router,
    launchContext: {
        launchOptions: {
            args: [
                '--accept-lang=de',
                '--lang=de',
            ],
        },
    },
});

There are also other ways how to set the browser language https://stackoverflow.com/a/47292022

Stack Overflow

How to specify browser language in Puppeteer

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optimistic-goldOP•3mo ago

Hi @Pepa J Thanks for your answer. I should have specified, I'm talking about when launching an Actor from the Apify API. It seems to be possible to specify the configuration of a proxy in the HTTP request to an Actor, is it possible to specify the browser language? Maybe it depends on the Actor? I asked the developer of an Actor I use but he doesn't answer.

Pepa J•3mo ago

Ah yes, in case you are not the developer of the Actor there is not default way to do this from the API/Actor's Input. This needs to be directly developed.

optimistic-goldOP•3mo ago

Ok I understand. Thank you for your help 👍

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