# Pitfall Log

Project: seleniumbase/SeleniumBase

Summary: Found 35 structured pitfall item(s), including 1 high/blocking item(s). Top priority: Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification.

## 1. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: high
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a configuration risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4247

## 2. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4394

## 3. Installation risk - Installation risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a installation risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4400

## 4. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this configuration risk before relying on the project: Chromium Warning: `Google API keys are missing. Some functionality of Chromium will be disabled.`
- User impact: Developers may misconfigure credentials, environment, or host setup: Chromium Warning: `Google API keys are missing. Some functionality of Chromium will be disabled.`
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4396

## 5. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a configuration risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4395

## 6. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a configuration risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4392

## 7. Configuration risk - Configuration risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a configuration risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4393

## 8. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: README/documentation is current enough for a first validation pass.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: capability.assumptions | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase

## 9. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this runtime risk before relying on the project: 4.49.14 - Chromium overhaul with CDP Mode updates
- User impact: Upgrade or migration may change expected behavior: 4.49.14 - Chromium overhaul with CDP Mode updates
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_release | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/releases/tag/v4.49.14

## 10. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this runtime risk before relying on the project: Missing `await` in `ad_block` option code led to `RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'Browser.wait' was never awaited`
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Missing `await` in `ad_block` option code led to `RuntimeWarning: coroutine 'Browser.wait' was never awaited`
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4388

## 11. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this runtime risk before relying on the project: Slider captcha no bypassed, stops before slider finishes
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Slider captcha no bypassed, stops before slider finishes
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4392

## 12. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this runtime risk before relying on the project: The latest chromium version makes UC Mode crash (includes UC + CDP Mode)
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: The latest chromium version makes UC Mode crash (includes UC + CDP Mode)
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4393

## 13. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a runtime risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4388

## 14. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a runtime risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4399

## 15. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a runtime risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4392

## 16. Runtime risk - Runtime risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a runtime risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4401

## 17. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this migration risk before relying on the project: "Can AI tools help you with web-scraping and CAPTCHA-bypass?" is now on YouTube
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: "Can AI tools help you with web-scraping and CAPTCHA-bypass?" is now on YouTube
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4333

## 18. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this migration risk before relying on the project: the new version of seleniumbase doesnt fully load chromium and crashes whenever i run my python code
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: the new version of seleniumbase doesnt fully load chromium and crashes whenever i run my python code
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4391

## 19. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a maintenance risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4393

## 20. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a maintenance risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4391

## 21. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a maintenance risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase

## 22. Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: no_demo
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: downstream_validation.risk_items | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase

## 23. Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: no_demo
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: risks.scoring_risks | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase

## 24. Security or permission risk - Security or permission risk requires verification

- Severity: medium
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Project evidence flags a security or permission risk. Review the linked source before relying on this workflow.
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: community_evidence:github | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4396

## 25. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this capability risk before relying on the project: Add option to set the exact Chromium revision downloaded for `sbase get chromium`
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Add option to set the exact Chromium revision downloaded for `sbase get chromium`
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4394

## 26. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this capability risk before relying on the project: Chromium first launch on Mac: `Do you want the application “Chromium Helper.app” to accept incoming network connections?`
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Chromium first launch on Mac: `Do you want the application “Chromium Helper.app” to accept incoming network connections?`
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4395

## 27. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this capability risk before relying on the project: On Windows, `ValueError: "I/O operation on closed pipe"` during the cleanup phase of Pure CDP Mode
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: On Windows, `ValueError: "I/O operation on closed pipe"` during the cleanup phase of Pure CDP Mode
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4400

## 28. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this capability risk before relying on the project: On Windows, `solve_captcha()` isn't dragging the DataDome slider enough to the right
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: On Windows, `solve_captcha()` isn't dragging the DataDome slider enough to the right
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4399

## 29. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this capability risk before relying on the project: SeleniumBase Recorder App 2.0
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: SeleniumBase Recorder App 2.0
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4403

## 30. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this capability risk before relying on the project: `get_title()` sometimes errors with `TypeError` if the page hasn't loaded enough
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: `get_title()` sometimes errors with `TypeError` if the page hasn't loaded enough
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4401

## 31. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this conceptual risk before relying on the project: High-Level Stealthy Architecture Overview
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: High-Level Stealthy Architecture Overview
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4247

## 32. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this conceptual risk before relying on the project: Maintainer away for 4 days. Hold questions until June 23, 2026
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: Maintainer away for 4 days. Hold questions until June 23, 2026
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4406

## 33. Capability evidence risk - Capability evidence risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: Developers should check this conceptual risk before relying on the project: slider captcha not yet passed
- User impact: Developers may hit a documented source-backed failure mode: slider captcha not yet passed
- Evidence: failure_mode_cluster:github_issue | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/issues/4398

## 34. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: issue_or_pr_quality=unknown。
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase

## 35. Maintenance risk - Maintenance risk requires verification

- Severity: low
- Evidence strength: source_linked
- Finding: release_recency=unknown。
- User impact: May increase setup, validation, or first-run risk for the user.
- Evidence: evidence.maintainer_signals | https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase