browser.js

const playwright = require("playwright");

async function startBrowser() {
	const userDataDir = "./session1";

	// extension to remove ads
	const adguard = require("path").join(__dirname, "adguard");

	const browser = await playwright.chromium.launchPersistentContext(
		userDataDir,
		{
			headless: false,
			channel: "chrome",
			permissions: ["camera", "microphone"],
			ignoreDefaultArgs: [
				"--disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages",
			],
			args: [
				`--disable-extensions-except=${adguard}`,
				`--load-extension=${adguard}`,
				"--auto-select-desktop-capture-source=YouTube",
			],
			colorScheme: "dark",
			viewport: null,
			storageState: "./state.json",
			userAgent:
				"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4595.0 Safari/537.36",
			locale: "en-US",
			timezoneId: "Asia/Kolkata",
		}
	);

	await browser.storageState({ path: "./state.json" });

	console.log("Browser started.");

	return browser;
}

module.exports = {
	startBrowser,
};