How to block media ?

[zhk0603]

When using Playwright crawler, how to block media, such as stylesheet, font, image, media

[janbuchar]

Hello, and thank you for your interest in Crawlee! Do I understand it right that you want to prevent images and such from loading? Perhaps to save bandwidth and make scraping faster?

[zhk0603]

yes

[janbuchar]

Once pre-navigation hooks are implemented (#427), I would utilize those to call page.route and set up blocking as you like. As of now, I'm not aware of an easy way to do this.

[B4nan]

Just one note about this, request interception (page.route) means not being able to reuse the resource cache of the browser. You can use this approach to save bandwidth, but it will result in worse overall performance most likely.