can now parse args from string to json

index.js

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ exports.scrape = async function(user_config, callback) {
         // check if headless chrome escapes common detection techniques
         // this is a quick test and should be used for debugging
         test_evasion: false,
+        apply_evasion_techniques: true,
         // settings for puppeteer-cluster
         puppeteer_cluster_config: {
             timeout: 30 * 60 * 1000, // max timeout set to 30 minutes

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "se-scraper",
-  "version": "1.2.8",
+  "version": "1.2.10",
   "description": "A simple module using puppeteer to scrape several search engines such as Google, Duckduckgo and Bing.",
   "homepage": "https://scrapeulous.com/",
   "main": "index.js",

run.js

@@ -12,13 +12,15 @@ let config = {
     search_engine: 'google',
 
     // use specific search engine parameters for various search engines
-    google_settings: {
-        google_domain: 'google.com',
-        gl: 'us', // The gl parameter determines the Google country to use for the query.
-        hl: 'us', // The hl parameter determines the Google UI language to return results.
-        start: 0, // Determines the results offset to use, defaults to 0.
-        num: 100, // Determines the number of results to show, defaults to 10. Maximum is 100.
-    },
+    // google_settings: {
+    //     google_domain: 'google.com',
+    //     gl: 'us', // The gl parameter determines the Google country to use for the query.
+    //     hl: 'us', // The hl parameter determines the Google UI language to return results.
+    //     start: 0, // Determines the results offset to use, defaults to 0.
+    //     num: 100, // Determines the number of results to show, defaults to 10. Maximum is 100.
+    // },
+
+    google_settings: '{"gl": "tr", "hl": "tr", "num": "50", "start": "0"}',
 
     // https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cognitiveservices/bing-web-api-v5-reference#query-parameters
     bing_settings: {
@@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ let config = {
     // check if headless chrome escapes common detection techniques
     // this is a quick test and should be used for debugging
     test_evasion: false,
+    apply_evasion_techniques: false,
     // log ip address data
     log_ip_address: false,
     // log http headers

src/modules/se_scraper.js

@@ -36,6 +36,19 @@ module.exports = class Scraper {
         this.num_requests = 0;
         // keep track of the keywords searched
         this.num_keywords = 0;
+
+        let settings = this.config[`${this.config.search_engine}_settings`];
+        if (settings) {
+            if (typeof settings === 'string') {
+                try {
+                    settings = JSON.parse(settings);
+                    this.config[`${this.config.search_engine}_settings`] = settings;
+                } catch (e) {
+                    console.error(e);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
     }
 
     async run({page, data}) {
@@ -64,8 +77,10 @@ module.exports = class Scraper {
      */
     async load_search_engine() {
 
-        // prevent detection by evading common detection techniques
-        await evadeChromeHeadlessDetection(this.page);
+        if (this.config.apply_evasion_techniques === true) {
+            // prevent detection by evading common detection techniques
+            await evadeChromeHeadlessDetection(this.page);
+        }
 
         // block some assets to speed up scraping
         if (this.config.block_assets === true) {
@@ -223,7 +238,6 @@ module.exports = class Scraper {
         let settings = this.config[`${this.config.search_engine}_settings`];
 
         if (settings) {
-
             for (var key in settings) {
                 baseUrl += `${key}=${settings[key]}&`
             }

src/node_scraper.js

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ module.exports.handler = async function handler (event, context, callback) {
                     pluggable: pluggable,
                     page: page,
                 });
-                results = obj.run({});
+                results = await obj.run({});
                 num_requests = obj.num_requests;
                 metadata = obj.metadata;
             }
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ function parseEventData(config) {
     }
 
     const booleans = ['debug', 'verbose', 'upload_to_s3', 'log_ip_address', 'log_http_headers', 'random_user_agent',
-        'compress', 'is_local', 'max_results', 'set_manual_settings', 'block_assets', 'test_evasion', 'do_work'];
+        'compress', 'is_local', 'max_results', 'set_manual_settings', 'block_assets', 'test_evasion', 'do_work', 'apply_evasion_techniques'];
 
     for (b of booleans) {
         config[b] = _bool(config[b]);