2 entries in this register are declared substitutes for, successors to or predecessors of fingerprint-suite (Apify), and 1 of them is still shipping at the last field check. fingerprint-suite (Apify) itself reads ACTIVE, and 1 of the candidates carry a state mark other than ACTIVE or SEMI, which is the part a list without check dates cannot tell you. Every row is judged by the same rubric, from the same sweep, on the same fields.
Every row below is judged by the same rule as fingerprint-suite (Apify) itself, from the
same field check. Supersession is only printed where a project or its
author says so — this register does not infer that one tool replaces
another because it is newer.
Read the state column with the licence column. A permissively licensed
project that stopped shipping is not safer than a copyleft one that did
not.
What fingerprint-suite (Apify) does, so you know what you are replacing
A generator and an injector as one toolkit, maintained by a scraping platform whose own product breaks when it stops working — which is a structural reason for its cadence rather than a promise about it.
A substitute has to do that job, not merely occupy the same category. It is built around that platform's crawler, so using it standalone means carrying some of those assumptions. Read what the injector actually overrides, since a generator's output is only as good as the injection that applies it.
How this register decides what counts as an alternative
BrowserForge, puppeteer-extra are recorded as substitutes for the same job. The alternative relation is symmetric and carries no ordering at all: it says these things answer the same question, and it says nothing whatsoever about which answers it better.
Nothing on this page is a ranking, a score or a recommendation, and nothing on it is a detection-test result — no entry in this register has been run against any anti-bot system by this register. What the table gives you is four measured columns and one derived one, applied identically to every row.
How to read the comparison above
1 of the 2 candidates read ACTIVE or SEMI and 1 do not. Start by reading the state column, then read the last-push and latest-release columns against each other, because they answer different questions: a push says somebody is there, and a tag says there is something you can pin a dependency to.
Every entry in the table declares a licence, which is less common in this catalogue than it should be — the entries that declare none are grouped separately. Read the licence column beside the state column rather than after it: a permissively licensed project that stopped shipping is not a safer dependency than a copyleft one that did not.
Why SEMI: pushed_at = 2026-02-26 — 169 days, inside the 90–365 day SEMI band.
Field
Value at this printing
pushed_at
2026-02-26
archived
false
latest_release
—
license.spdx_id
Apache-2.0
stargazers_count
1200
http_status
200
fetched_at
2026-08-14T09:12:00Z
rubric_edition
2nd, in force
Endpoint: GET https://api.github.com/repos/daijro/browserforge
unauthenticated · 60 req/hr
A live read does not change what is printed above it. The site records that you ran it; what GitHub returned is not kept. The printed state moves only when the register is swept and a new printing is issued. raw JSON
Why NRND: pushed_at = 2024-07-18 — 757 days, inside the 365–1095 day NRND band.
Field
Value at this printing
pushed_at
2024-07-18
archived
false
latest_release
—
license.spdx_id
MIT
stargazers_count
7400
http_status
200
fetched_at
2026-08-14T09:12:00Z
rubric_edition
2nd, in force
Endpoint: GET https://api.github.com/repos/berstend/puppeteer-extra
unauthenticated · 60 req/hr
A live read does not change what is printed above it. The site records that you ran it; what GitHub returned is not kept. The printed state moves only when the register is swept and a new printing is issued. raw JSON
Still the most-copied answer on the internet and two years without a push. That gap is the single best argument for this catalogue existing. — ED.
Questions about replacing fingerprint-suite (Apify)
Answered from the same fields the table above prints, and from no other source.
What is the best alternative to fingerprint-suite (Apify)?
This register does not answer that, because it publishes no ranking and has tested no tool to rank. What it can tell you is which candidates are still shipping: BrowserForge. The rest of the decision is fit, licence and how much of your own stack you are prepared to change.
Are these fingerprint-suite (Apify) alternatives still maintained?
BrowserForge reads SEMI. Each of those states is derived from that entry's own measured fields by the rubric in force, at the field check printed in the folio, and the clause that produced it is printed on the entry page.
Why does this list not rank the alternatives?
Because a ranking would be an opinion wearing a number's clothes. Every figure on this site is a date, a count, an SPDX identifier or an HTTP status you can re-fetch from the endpoint named beside it, and there is no honest way to compress those into an ordering without inventing weights nobody published. The rubric sets states; it does not rate them against each other.
Where does the alternatives data for fingerprint-suite (Apify) come from?
From declared edges in the register itself, never inferred. Each edge is stored once and reversed at build time, and every field in the table is read from the same sweep that produced the rest of the catalogue. The whole set is downloadable as CC0 JSON and CSV, including the supersedes, superseded_by and alternative_to columns.
Everything in section 02 is a patch applied to somebody else's automation stack, which means every one of them inherits that stack's release cadence and breaks on its own schedule. Donut Browser starts from the other end: the fingerprint handling is in the browser it ships rather than in a layer bolted onto a driver, and the local REST API and MCP server mean automation talks to it directly instead of through a patched client library.