Should I use SB or Driver for threading?

[misterpeople]

So Im building a multi-step bot that needs to login interact with the website and scrape WITH multiple accounts.
Currently I use ThreadPoolExecutor to handle co-currency and threading

I use these methods below:
with SB(uc=True, proxy=proxy_url, incognito=True) as sb:
sb.driver.uc_open_with_reconnect
sb.wait_for_element_visible
sb.open
sb.driver.uc_click
sb.click
sb.select_option_by_index
day = int(cell.find_element(by="css selector", value="a").text)
row.find_element(by="css selector", value="input[type='radio']").click()

sometimes I get detected so I guess IM not doing this stealthy enough, I am not sure if I should only use DRIVER methods or SB as well?

Also what is the differences between
sb.click
to
sb.driver.uc_click

aint both suppose to be stealthy?

[mdmintz]

There are some examples that fully get to a page and don't use Selenium at all to click:

• SeleniumBase/examples/raw_brotector_captcha.py
• SeleniumBase/examples/raw_hobbit.py
• SeleniumBase/examples/raw_antibot_login.py

You might be able to learn from those.

sb.click is the same as sb.driver.click
sb.uc_click is the same as sb.driver.uc_click

Unless a driver method by the same name already existed with regular Selenium, the sb.driver version will be the same, although sb has more methods than sb.driver.

uc_click() uses JavaScript to do a stealthy click (more stealthy than js_click()), however CloudFlare detects JS clicks of any kind now, even if Selenium is not detected, and that's why pyautogui is needed now for actual stealthy clicking.

You'll need to use thread-locking to prevent overlaps with pyautogui. https://pypi.org/project/fasteners/ can help with that.

[misterpeople]

Thanks! my bot suppose to work simultaneously though with each account doing his own thing AND as I understand using pyautogui correctly will require me to STOP ALL other proccesses of all threads while it clicks on the button and then continue as normal with all the threads?
Also consdering I will have to use pyautogui to click, EACH account will have to wait for the other to finish clicking the elements on the page, etc? it would be a whole slow mess no?

[mdmintz]

The thread-locking is unavoidable with pyautogui. A specific window needs to be active for the actions to work.

[misterpeople]

I see, BUT let's say I bypassed the CAPTCHA with a PyAutoGUI click or automatically. Can I continue to perform the necessary clicks on the page I scrape using sb.click, and if we encounter a Cloudflare check again, can we use sb.uc_gui_handle_cf? Or, if I use sb.click to click on elements I need and then randomly encounter a CAPTCHA, will it bypass it?

Additionally, does sb.uc_gui_handle_cf detect CAPTCHA automatically, or do I need to use an iframe like sb.uc_gui_handle_cf("iframe[title*='challenge']")?

[mdmintz]

You can use sb.click once you've bypassed the CAPTCHA. You only need thread-locking between setting the active window/element, and the pyautogui click. sb.uc_gui_handle_cf() will detect the CAPTCHA and be used only if needed. If the CAPTCHA is not in the first iframe, then you'll need to specify the selector when calling sb.uc_gui_handle_cf()