From 5e3a1f92440437a25ad4b51add2e3df9481757f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aponb <aponb@gmx.at>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:46:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: add extraChromeArgs support for passing custom
 Chrome flags

---
 src/crawler.ts        | 12 +++++++++++-
 src/util/argParser.ts |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/crawler.ts b/src/crawler.ts
index 39b1b2f5a..62bc0c196 100644
--- a/src/crawler.ts
+++ b/src/crawler.ts
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ export class Crawler {
   }
 
   extraChromeArgs() {
-    const args = [];
+    const args: string[] = [];
     if (this.params.lang) {
       if (this.params.profile) {
         logger.warn(
@@ -605,6 +605,16 @@ export class Crawler {
         args.push(`--accept-lang=${this.params.lang}`);
       }
     }
+
+    const extra = this.params.extraChromeArgs;
+    if (Array.isArray(extra) && extra.length > 0) {
+      for (const v of extra) {
+        if (v !== undefined && v !== null && v !== "") {
+          args.push(String(v));
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
     return args;
   }
 
diff --git a/src/util/argParser.ts b/src/util/argParser.ts
index cd64e8fd6..a6e7ac816 100644
--- a/src/util/argParser.ts
+++ b/src/util/argParser.ts
@@ -683,6 +683,13 @@ class ArgParser {
             "path to SSH known hosts file for SOCKS5 over SSH proxy connection",
           type: "string",
         },
+
+        extraChromeArgs: {
+          describe:
+            "Extra arguments to pass directly to the Chrome instance (space-separated or multiple --extraChromeArgs)",
+          type: "array",
+          default: [],
+        },
       });
   }
 

From 1f9068a77950477ee60666fdb820d5c80105e770 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aponb <aponb@gmx.at>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:32:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update src/crawler.ts

Co-authored-by: Ilya Kreymer <ikreymer@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/crawler.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/crawler.ts b/src/crawler.ts
index 62bc0c196..3d390b307 100644
--- a/src/crawler.ts
+++ b/src/crawler.ts
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ export class Crawler {
     const extra = this.params.extraChromeArgs;
     if (Array.isArray(extra) && extra.length > 0) {
       for (const v of extra) {
-        if (v !== undefined && v !== null && v !== "") {
+        if (v) {
           args.push(String(v));
         }
       }