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curl-impersonate[1] is a curl fork that I maintain and which lets you fetch sites while impersonating a browser. Unfortunately, the practice of TLS and HTTP fingerprinting of web c…

For a while now I can't even access WhatsApp Web [1] through Firefox. It gets stuck on the loading page and keeps refreshing itself forever. I have to resort to Chrome whenever I n…

I think they have different plans and configurations for their anti-bot service [1]. I'm not sure though because I'm not using their services. [1] https://developers.cloudflare.com…

They don't block you completely, just present you with a JS challenge that delays your access to the site. A browser, even if behind a MITM proxy, would be able to solve this chall…

I hope to do so in the future, for now the implementation is extremely hacky so I doubt it can get accepted into curl.

I will try to impersonate Chrome next, However, I suspect this is going to be more challenging. Chrome uses BoringSSL, which curl does not support. So it means either enforcing cur…

Thanks for the suggestion, I had no idea ESR was a thing. I've just added support for Firefox ESR 91 (it was pretty similar and required adding one cipher to the cipher list and ch…

Hi HN, About a year ago I wrote a few scripts and spreadsheets to calculate the historical performance of various passive investment portfolios. There is portfoliovisualizer.com bu…