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https://github.com/nathanhouse/cloudflare-browser-rendering-...
So technically it’s a nice managed crawling system, but in practice it only works on sites that already allow bots to crawl them. For many real-world data extraction use cases, the problem isn’t crawling infrastructure, it’s dealing with sites that actively block bots. In those cases you still need traditional scraping approaches.
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No: https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/rest-api...
That's not the perfect defense you think it is. Plenty of robots.txts[1] technically allow scraping their main content pages as long as your user-agent isn't explicitly disallowed, but in practice they're behind Cloudflare so they still throw up Cloudflare bot check if you actually attempt to crawl. And forget about crawling. If you have a less reputable IP (basically every IP in third world countries are less reputa…
Or if you have a less common browser like Firefox with some moderate privacy settings/extensions.