Puppeteer with Brave browser?

Question

I'm wondering if it's possible executing a puppeteer script using Brave browser instead of the basic version of chromium. I know that Brave has been developed from chromium, and for that reason you can launch a selenium script using brave, but do you know if it's possible with puppeteer as well?

Answer 1

Yes, you can use Brave. The only catch is the adblocking doesn't work with headless mode. For the adblocking in headful mode, you need to set/create a profile and point the userDataDir option to it because Brave downloads the filter lists the first time it launches and stores those lists in the profile.

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
        headless: false,
        executablePath: "path/to/brave",
        userDataDir: "path/to/profile/dir"
});