nodriver-proxyhat

Route nodriver — the successor to undetected-chromedriver — through ProxyHat residential proxies. Authenticated gateway proxies wired straight into nodriver over CDP, plus a sticky residential IP pinned for the whole session, geo-targeting, and rotation.

Why

Chrome's --proxy-server flag can't carry a username and password, so pointing an undetected browser at a credentialed residential gateway normally means a manual CDP dance. And running a real browser from a datacenter IP gets flagged, CAPTCHA-walled, and blocked anyway — exactly what you're using nodriver to avoid.

nodriver-proxyhat fixes both. It plugs ProxyHat's residential IPs (50M+ across 148+ countries) into nodriver and handles gateway auth the CDP way nodriver is built for: it enables the Fetch domain and answers the proxy's Fetch.authRequired challenge with your credentials. One pinned residential IP per session by default, so cookies and fingerprint stay consistent while your script works.

Install

pip install nodriver-proxyhat nodriver

nodriver is a peer dependency — bring your own version (and its Chrome). The proxyhat_browser_args() / proxyhat_auth() helpers work without it; proxyhat_browser() needs nodriver installed.

Quick start

import nodriver as uc
from nodriver_proxyhat import proxyhat_browser

async def main():
    # An API key (PROXYHAT_API_KEY) auto-selects an active residential sub-user:
    browser = await proxyhat_browser(country="us")   # sticky US IP for the whole session
    page = await browser.get("https://httpbin.org/ip")
    print(await page.get_content())
    browser.stop()

uc.loop().run_until_complete(main())

Get an API key at proxyhat.com.

proxyhat_browser(...) calls nodriver.start(...) for you and forwards any extra keyword arguments (headless, user_data_dir, browser_args, …) unchanged.

Credentials

Pass them explicitly or via environment variables — options win over env:

Targeting

await proxyhat_browser(
    country="us",      # ISO code or "any" (default)
    region="california",
    city="new_york",
    filter="high",     # AI IP-quality tier
    sticky="30m",      # session lifetime (default); sticky=False rotates every request
    headless=True,     # any extra kwarg is forwarded to nodriver.start
)

The same targeting keyword arguments work on proxyhat_auth(...).

Sticky IP per session (default)

A browser session takes many steps against the same site — logging in, clicking, scrolling. If the exit IP changed mid-session the site would see a user teleporting between cities and block it. So this package is sticky by default: one residential IP is pinned for the whole session (sticky="30m", renewed as you work), keeping cookies and fingerprint coherent.

Want a fresh IP on every request instead (e.g. many independent one-shot fetches)? Turn stickiness off:

await proxyhat_browser(country="us", sticky=False)  # rotating residential IP per connection

Set a custom lifetime with sticky="2h".

How authentication works

nodriver takes the proxy host/port from --proxy-server=gate.proxyhat.com:8080, but a residential gateway also needs a username (the ProxyHat targeting string) and password. Since the flag can't carry them, proxyhat_browser uses nodriver's raw Chrome DevTools Protocol access instead:

1. it enables the Fetch domain on the main tab with handle_auth_requests=True;
2. it registers a Fetch.authRequired handler that answers with your targeting username + sub-user password via Fetch.continueWithAuth (ProvideCredentials);
3. it resumes every other paused request with Fetch.continueRequest (enabling Fetch pauses all requests, so non-auth ones must be continued too).

The targeting username (e.g. <user>-country-us-sid-<id>-ttl-30m) is built by the official proxyhat SDK, so a sticky session mints a single session id shared across the run.

This is the HTTP gateway (port 8080) — CDP proxy auth answers the HTTP proxy's basic-auth challenge.

Wiring it yourself

Prefer to drive nodriver.start() your way? Grab the launch flag and the resolved credentials and wire the CDP handler yourself:

import nodriver as uc
from nodriver import cdp
from nodriver_proxyhat import proxyhat_auth, proxyhat_browser_args, enable_proxy_auth

async def main():
    username, password = proxyhat_auth(country="de", sticky="1h")

    browser = await uc.start(browser_args=proxyhat_browser_args() + ["--headless=new"])
    # enable_proxy_auth does the Fetch.enable + authRequired dance for you:
    await enable_proxy_auth(browser.main_tab, username, password)

    page = await browser.get("https://httpbin.org/ip")
    print(await page.get_content())
    browser.stop()

uc.loop().run_until_complete(main())

proxyhat_browser_args() returns ["--proxy-server=gate.proxyhat.com:8080"]; proxyhat_auth() returns the (username, password) for a Fetch.authRequired handler.

License

MIT © ProxyHat