v1.2.0

[mnmkng]

This release brings the long awaited HTTP2 capabilities to requestAsBrowser. It could make HTTP2 requests even before, but it was not very helpful in making browser-like ones. This is very important for disguising as a browser and reduction in the number of blocked requests. requestAsBrowser now uses got-scraping.

The most important new feature is that the full set of headers requestAsBrowser uses will now be generated using live data about browser headers that we collect. This means that the "header fingeprint" will always match existing browsers and should be indistinguishable from a real browser request. The header sets will be automatically rotated for you to further reduce the chances of blocking.

We also switched the default HTTP version from 1 to 2 in requestAsBrowser. We don't expect this change to be breaking, and we took precautions, but we're aware that there are always some edge cases, so please let us know if it causes trouble for you.

Full list of changes:

• Replace the underlying HTTP client of utils.requestAsBrowser() with got-scraping.
• Make useHttp2 true by default with utils.requestAsBrowser().
• Fix Apify.call() failing with empty OUTPUT.
• Update puppeteer to 8.0.0 and playwright to 1.10.0 with Chromium 90 in Docker images.
• Update @apify/ps-tree to support Windows better.
• Update @apify/storage-local to support Node.js 16 prebuilds.

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