Uc mode with manual usage

[ggforces]

How can I perform all clicks manually using 'sb.driver.uc_click' in SeleniumBase? In other words, instead of automation, the user will click manually. Will this method make it undetected?

[STARKILLER-1]

I think not, although I'm not sure, uc_click disconnects and reconnects to the page during a click, whereas a normal user click does not do this. (https://youtu.be/5dMFI3e85ig?si=k9tcX6N7Wn4Cpz2m 26:43 in guide video)

[mdmintz]

Regular manual clicking during UC Mode can get you detected because those websites aren't looking specifically at the click, but they are looking at your environment settings / Chrome variables / etc. The driver.uc_click(selector) method disconnects chromedriver from Chrome immediately after the click for a very short time... If a website looks for traces of chromedriver, then it won't find it if chromedriver disconnected fast enough.

However, if you want to do some manual actions during UC Mode, first call driver.reconnect(timeout), which will disconnect chromedriver from Chrome for that many seconds, and then you can perform manual actions safely before your time runs out.

[ggforces]

For example, open example.com, have all clicks on example.com go undetected. The crucial part is not just mimicking driver.uc_click but ensuring that it remains undetectable. Is this possible? Instead of a few manual steps, how should I proceed to have the user perform all the actions and avoid detection?

[mdmintz]

If you have lots of manual actions that you want to do undetected, then set a large timeout when you call driver.reconnect(timeout), and then do all your actions before your time runs out. If you need more time, make sure you set a larger timeout in advance.

[ggforces]

I would like to ask a few questions because I haven't fully grasped the function of Driver.reconnect. For example, if I set 9999 seconds for the timeout, is there a way to display this as a countdown for the user? Also, does the reconnect functionality only apply to a single page? If we initiate a reconnect to page x and the user opens a new tab, navigates to page y, can we assume that actions on page y are undetected, but when the user returns to page x, actions on page x remain undetected? Or does opening page y eliminate the undetected status? My last question is, if we continuously use a while true loop to reconnect with a 1-second timeout for the current link, how does it exactly conclude? Can it consistently make every opened link undetected?

[mdmintz]

That's a lot of questions about a method originally from:
https://github.com/ultrafunkamsterdam/undetected-chromedriver/blob/cea80717c5a3d95ccf5c40e6e38081d5454ec7a5/undetected_chromedriver/__init__.py#L705
Other than fixes, existing UC Mode methods remain as they were to preserve functionality and reduce confusion for people crossing over between frameworks.
For questions about specifics on reconnect(), ask the original author.