Headless doesn't work as of 01.27.2024

[urcoolfriend]

Google appears to be blocking automated headless interactions. Here is the code I'm trying:

const { upload } = require('youtube-videos-uploader'); 

const credentials = { email: 'email@gmail.com', pass: 'pass!', recoveryemail: 'rec@gmail.com' }

const video1 = { path: 'clips/post_1.mp4', title: 'story!', description: 'WOW story', channelName: 'mychannel' }

const video2 = { path: 'clips/post_2.mp4', title: 'WOOW Story!', description: 'Increadible story, channelName: 'mychannel' }

upload (credentials, [video1, video2], {headless:"new", args: ["--no-sandbox", ],}).then(console.log)

And this results in:
TimeoutError: waiting for selector input[type="password"]:not([aria-hidden="true"]) failed: timeout 60000ms exceeded
at new WaitTask (/usr/src/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/DOMWorld.js:680:34)
at DOMWorld._waitForSelectorInPage (/usr/src/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/DOMWorld.js:564:26)
at internalHandler.waitFor (/usr/src/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/QueryHandler.js:34:29)
at DOMWorld.waitForSelector (/usr/src/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/DOMWorld.js:493:29)
at Frame.waitForSelector (/usr/src/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/FrameManager.js:1019:51)
at Page.waitForSelector (/usr/src/app/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/common/Page.js:2265:33)
at login (/usr/src/app/node_modules/youtube-videos-uploader/dist/upload.js:974:25)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async loadAccount (/usr/src/app/node_modules/youtube-videos-uploader/dist/upload.js:838:13)
at async upload (/usr/src/app/node_modules/youtube-videos-uploader/dist/upload.js:52:9)

A few ideas how to fix this:

1. Try playing around with providing session cookies from a real session to chromium
2. Fail back to opening an actual browser window to allow user to manually do whatever needs to be done when the script results in timeout on navigation.

But unfortunately I don't see any of the available headless selenium/firefox + puppeteer solutions as a long term strategy for automated youtube uploads as of now :( My dreams of automating mass-uploads are now completely shattered

[ali-kingX]

Yup, and even doing it with headless disabled i get this error :(
TypeError: text is not iterable
at Keyboard.type (C:\Users\laure\Desktop\Video Generator\node_modules\puppeteer\lib\cjs\puppeteer\common\Input.js:195:28)
at ElementHandle.type (C:\Users\laure\Desktop\Video Generator\node_modules\puppeteer\lib\cjs\puppeteer\common\JSHandle.js:739:79)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
at async DOMWorld.type (C:\Users\laure\Desktop\Video Generator\node_modules\puppeteer\lib\cjs\puppeteer\common\DOMWorld.js:487:9)
at async login (C:\Users\laure\Desktop\Video Generator\node_modules\youtube-videos-uploader\dist\upload.js:976:9)
at async loadAccount (C:\Users\laure\Desktop\Video Generator\node_modules\youtube-videos-uploader\dist\upload.js:838:13)
at async upload (C:\Users\laure\Desktop\Video Generator\node_modules\youtube-videos-uploader\dist\upload.js:52:9)

[monkeyhucker62]

Is there a work around, such as not running in headless mode? Or any other working packages?

[developerfromjokela]

It's just getting recaptchas.

[dominic-findlay]

I did this to spawn the window off screen

{
      headless: false,
      userDataDir: process.env.LOCALAPPDATA + "/Google/Chrome SxS/User Data/",
      args: [
          '--profile-directory=Upload', //Select your profle here
          '--window-size=200,200',
          '--window-position=3000,3000'
      ]
  }