How to Know What Anti-Bot Service a Website is Using?
In this article we'll take a look at two popular tools: WhatWaf and Wafw00f which can identify what WAF service is used.
"Error 1010: The owner of this website has banned your access based on your browser's signature" is often encountered when web scraping using browser automation tools like Puppetter, Playwright or Selenium.
This is caused by javascript fingerprinting as these automated browsers are easy to fingerprint and identify.
To avoid this error, browser automation tools should be fortified against javascript fingerprinting:
Alternatively, web scraping APIs such as ScrapFly can be used that use fortified cloud browsers to execute scraping commands.
For more on how Cloudflare is blocking web scrapers see our in-depth explanation blog.
In this article we'll take a look at two popular tools: WhatWaf and Wafw00f which can identify what WAF service is used.
Learn how to prevent TLS fingerprinting by impersonating normal web browser configurations. We'll start by explaining what the Curl Impersonate is, how it works, how to install and use it. Finally, we'll explore using it with Python to avoid web scraping blocking.
In this article, we'll explore the FlareSolverr tool and how to use it to get around Cloudflare while scraping. We'll start by explaining what FlareSolverr is, how it works, how to install and use it. Let's get started!