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Jake WriterandClaude Opus 5 072ad02797 fix(pythonlib): per-identity salt for seeded draws; core pinning under concurrency
Found in review of the previous commits:

- identity_seed() hashed only the UA, platform, screen size and core count.
  Those take a handful of values per OS, so over 500 launches the seed took
  12-30 distinct values and every install drew its fonts, voices, GPU, media
  devices and canvas/audio noise seeds from that same short list. The seed now
  mixes in identity_salt(): derived from what the caller pinned the identity
  with (a Fingerprint, a preset dict, a config naming the UA) so relaunching
  that identity reproduces every draw, and random otherwise. A pinned preset
  now reproduces its noise seeds too; seeds the caller sets are kept.
- Concurrent AsyncNewBrowser launches on one driver interleaved pin/restore:
  one browser inherited the other's mask and the driver could stay pinned.
  pin -> launch -> restore is serialized per driver.
- Every pinned browser landed on cores 0..N-1; pins now take N adjacent cores
  from a random start.
- A pinnable host with 1-3 cores reported 1, 2 or 3 (2 is the
  resistFingerprinting value); the table floor of 4 applies as on other hosts.
- launch_options() callers that launch the browser themselves (launch_server,
  direct use) kept the drawn core count although nothing pins the browser;
  only Camoufox/AsyncCamoufox pass pin_cpu_cores=True now, everyone else
  reports the host's snapped count.
- PLAUSIBLE_CORE_COUNTS gains 18, 22, 28 and 32, all recorded in the -v150
  corpus.
- The Windows voice list was drawn before the locale was resolved, so an
  fr-FR identity got en-US voices; it is drawn after locale/geoip now.
- macOS "Alex" gets its com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice identifier.
- CAMOU_PREFS env chunks are ASCII-only JSON (Windows getenv goes through the
  ANSI code page).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Camoufox Python Interface

Lightweight wrapper around the Playwright API to help launch Camoufox.

Note

All the the latest documentation is avaliable here.


What is this?

This Python library wraps around Playwright's API to help automatically generate & inject unique device characteristics (OS, CPU info, navigator, fonts, headers, screen dimensions, viewport size, WebGL, addons, etc.) into Camoufox.

It uses BrowserForge under the hood to generate fingerprints that mimic the statistical distribution of device characteristics in real-world traffic.

In addition, it will also calculate your target geolocation, timezone, and locale to avoid proxy protection (see demo).


Installation

First, install the camoufox package:

pip install -U camoufox[geoip]

The geoip parameter is optional, but heavily recommended if you are using proxies. It will download an extra dataset to determine the user's longitude, latitude, timezone, country, & locale.

Next, download the Camoufox browser:

Windows

camoufox fetch

MacOS & Linux

python3 -m camoufox fetch

To uninstall, run camoufox remove.


Installing multiple Camoufox versions & from other repos

UI Manager

Manage installed browsers, active version, IP geolocation databases, and package info. Basically a Qt front end for the Python CLI tool.

More updates on it will be coming soon.

ui-screenshot

To use the gui, install Camoufox with the [gui] extra:

pip install 'camoufox[gui]'

To launch:

camoufox gui

CLI Mananger

Demonstration

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/992b1830-6b21-4024-9165-728854df1473

See help message
$ python -m camoufox --help

 Usage: python -m camoufox [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

╭─ Options ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --help  Show this message and exit.                                                   │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
╭─ Commands ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ active    Print the current active version                                            │
│ fetch     Install the active version, or a specific version                           │
│ gui       Launch the Camoufox Manager GUI (requires PySide6)                          │
│ list      List Camoufox versions                                                      │
│ path      Print the install directory path                                            │
│ remove    Remove downloaded data. By default, this removes everything.                │
│           Pass --select to pick a browser version to remove.                          │
│ server    Launch a Playwright server                                                  │
│ set       Set the active Camoufox version to use & fetch.                             │
│           By default, this opens an interactive selector for versions and settings.   │
│           You can also pass a specifier to activate directly:                         │
│           Pin version:                                                                │
│               camoufox set official/stable/134.0.2-beta.20                            │
│           Automatically find latest in a channel source:                              │
│               camoufox set official/stable                                            │
│ sync      Sync available versions from remote repositories                            │
│ test      Open the Playwright inspector                                               │
│ version   Display version, package, browser, and storage info                         │
╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

sync

Pull a list of release assets from GitHub.

> camoufox sync
Syncing repositories...
  Official... 24 versions
  CoryKing... 2 versions

Synced 26 versions from 2 repos.

set

Choose a version channel or pin a specific version. Can also be called with a specifier to activate directly.

Interactive selector:

> camoufox set

You can also pass a specifier to pin a specific version or choose a channel to follow directly. This will pull the latest stable version from the official repo on camoufox fetch.

> camoufox set official/stable  # Default setting

Follow latest prerelease version from the official repo, if applicable:

> camoufox set official/prerelease

Pin a specific version:

> camoufox set official/stable/134.0.2-beta.20

active

Prints the current active version string:

> camoufox active  # Default channel is active
official/stable
> camoufox set coryking/stable/142.0.1-fork.26
Pinned: coryking/stable/142.0.1-fork.26
Run 'camoufox fetch' to install.

> camoufox active  # A specific version is pinned
coryking/stable/142.0.1-fork.26 (not installed)

fetch

Install the latest version from the active channel. By default, this is official/stable. This will also automatically sync repository assets.

> camoufox fetch  # Install the latest in the channel

To download the latest from a different channel, or pin a version:

> camoufox set coryking/stable
> camoufox fetch  # Will download the latest release from CoryKing's repo for now on

Or pass in the identifier to download directly without activating it:

> camoufox fetch official/stable/135.0-beta.25   # Install a specific version

list

List installed or all available Camoufox versions as a tree.

> camoufox list          # show installed versions
> camoufox list all      # show all available versions from synced repos
> camoufox list --path   # show full install paths

remove

By default, removes the entire camoufox data directory.

> camoufox remove
> camoufox remove -y  # skip confirmation prompt

Remove a specific version:

> camoufox remove official/stable/134.0.2-beta.20

Interactively select a version to remove:

> camoufox remove --select

version

Display the Python package version, active browser version, channel, and update status.

> camoufox version
Python Packages
  Camoufox                    v0.5.0
  Browserforge                v1.2.4
  Apify Fingerprints          v0.10.0
  Playwright                  v1.57.1.dev0+g732639b35.d20251217
Browser
  Active                      official/stable/135.0.1-beta.24
  Current browser             v135.0.1-beta.24
  Installed                   Yes
  Latest in official/stable?  Yes
  Last Sync                   2026-03-07 00:23
GeoIP
  Database                    MaxMind GeoLite2
  Updated                     2026-03-07 00:24
Storage
  Install path                /home/name/.cache/camoufox
  Browser(s) directory size   1.2 GB
  GeoIP database size         40.7 MB
  Config file                 /home/name/.cache/camoufox/config.json
  Repo cache                  /home/name/.cache/camoufox/repo_cache.json

path

Print the install directory path.

> camoufox path
/home/name/.cache/camoufox

test

Open Camoufox with the Playwright inspector for debugging.

> camoufox test
> camoufox test https://example.com

server

Launch a remote Playwright server.

> camoufox server

Usage

All of the latest stable documentation is avaliable at camoufox.com/python.