hide-overlays

Curated CSS selectors that hide cookie consent banners, live chat widgets, and accessibility overlays before web capture.

Works with any browser automation tool — Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer.

Install

pip install hide-overlays

Usage

Playwright

from overlay_css import get_css

page.add_style_tag(content=get_css())

Selenium

from overlay_css import get_css

css = get_css()
driver.execute_script(
    f"const s=document.createElement('style');s.innerHTML=`{css}`;document.head.appendChild(s);"
)

Filter to specific groups

from overlay_css import get_css, get_selectors

# Only hide cookie banners
page.add_style_tag(content=get_css(groups=["cookies"]))

# Inspect the raw selectors
print(get_selectors(groups=["chat", "accessibility"]))

Selector groups

Group	Covers
cookies	OneTrust, Cookiebot, Termly, cc-window, dealer-specific banners
chat	Drift, Intercom, Zopim, HubSpot, generic chat widget patterns
accessibility	accessiBe, UserWay, AudioEye, ADA widget buttons

Adding selectors

The selectors live in overlay_css/selectors.yaml. Open a pull request to add new ones.

License

MIT