Enable chrome SafeBrowsing error with puppeteer

Question

Google Safe Browsing shows client side warning page when browsing to a malicious web site.

For example, navigating to https://testsafebrowsing.appspot.com/s/malware.html will display:

However, when using puppeteer this warning page is not shown.

Is it possible to enable this error screen in puppeteer, or to detect it will be shown if using the browser?

I have tried to:

1. Use the local Chrome instead of Chromium
2. set ignoreDefaultArgs to true (run without puppeteer default flags):

  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    executablePath: '/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome',
    ignoreDefaultArgs: true,
  });

3. Played with various possible related flags see here

However the warning page was never displayed.

Answer 1

Did you try launching puppeteer with the 'userDataDir' argument? Using a predefined user directory should enable web security capabilities.

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    executablePath: '/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome',
    ignoreDefaultArgs: true,
    userDataDir: '/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome'
  });