What is Error 1015 (Cloudflare) and How to Fix it?
Discover why you're seeing Cloudflare Error 1015 and learn effective ways to resolve and prevent it.
When scraping pages protected by PerimeterX we might encounter messages like "Please verify you are Human: Press & Hold":
This message means the web scraper has been identified and is being blocked. PerimeterX is using various fingerprinting and detection techniques, like:
And other details like request pattern, HTTP version etc. To avoid being blocked one option is to fortify the web scraper against these identification methods.
Alternatively, a web scraping API such as ScrapFly can be used to scrape all PerimeterX pages. For that see the Anti Scraping Protection feature.
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