Every Anti-Bot Measure I Hit While Automating 5 Websites (And How I Beat Them)

The author documents anti-bot measures encountered while automating Reddit, Gumroad, and DEV.to, including browser fingerprinting, 2FA, Shadow DOM web components, and ProseMirror rich text editors. Each challenge is paired with a practical workaround using Playwright, such as switching to Firefox to avoid fingerprint detection, using storage_state for session persistence, and leveraging execCommand for ProseMirror input. The author distills these solutions into a reusable session management pattern called SessionKeeper.