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Re:Scrape like the big boys by Andoryuuta on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:20PM (#29121406)
I'm really surprised that the JS challenges helped so much, given that there are open source libraries for bypassing them (e.g. cloudscraper[0]).

[0]: https://github.com/venomous/cloudscraper

Re:Scrape like the big boys by paco3346 on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:26PM (#29121481)
If someone wanted to get past it they probably could. We've had a few sources of traffic that we've had to straight up block (as opposed to challenge) because of this exact issue. So far it's been a "good enough" solution that blocks enough of the bot traffic to be effective.