Can a website detect when you are using selenium with chromedriver?

Question

I\'ve been testing out Selenium with Chromedriver and I noticed that some pages can detect that you\'re using Selenium even though there\'s no automation at all. Even when I

Answer 1

Additionally to the great answer of @Erti-Chris Eelmaa - there's annoying window.navigator.webdriver and it is read-only. Event if you change the value of it to false it will still have true. Thats why the browser driven by automated software can still be detected. MDN

The variable is managed by the flag --enable-automation in chrome. The chromedriver launches chrome with that flag and chrome sets the window.navigator.webdriver to true. You can find it here. You need to add to "exclude switches" the flag. For instance (golang):

package main

import (
    "github.com/tebeka/selenium"
    "github.com/tebeka/selenium/chrome"
)

func main() {

caps := selenium.Capabilities{
    "browserName": "chrome",
}

chromeCaps := chrome.Capabilities{
    Path:            "/path/to/chrome-binary",
    ExcludeSwitches: []string{"enable-automation"},
}
caps.AddChrome(chromeCaps)

wd, err := selenium.NewRemote(caps, fmt.Sprintf("http://localhost:%d/wd/hub", 4444))
}