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 1020: Access Denied" can be seen when web scraping websites powered by Cloudflare WAF. This means Cloudflare has blocked your scraper's IP address.
This error can be caused by a variety of reasons from web scraping too fast to using low-quality proxies. Cloudflare's anti-bot systems are using a variety of technologies to detect web scrapers, like:
So, to avoid this error, the scrapers needs to be fortified against Cloudflare's anti-scraping technologies which can be done by using proxies and better scraping pracitces and libraries.
For more on how Cloudflare is blocking web scrapers see our in-depth explanation blog.
This knowledgebase is provided by Scrapfly — a web scraping API that allows you to scrape any website without getting blocked and implements a dozens of other web scraping conveniences. Check us out 👇
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!
Captchas can ruin web scrapers but we don't have to teach our robots how to solve them - we can just get around it all!