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707 points namukang | 2 comments | 17 Nov 21 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.459s | source

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menthe ◴[18 Nov 21 04:26 UTC] No.29261972[source]▶

As a web scraper, I'll say that because he is hooking into the browser like a debugger / remotely controlled browser, just like Puppeteer would - he is instantly detected by the Cloudflare, PerimeterX, Datadome bot management solutions; and will get consistently banned on his page reload for literally any site caring about bots.

He'd be better off running some javascript on the page instead (a-la Tampermonkey, but can be done really nicely with some server-served TypeScript) to scrape the pages stealthily and perform actions.

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1. dkthehuman ◴[18 Nov 21 05:27 UTC] No.29262248[source]▶

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This is simply not accurate, and you can easily test the claim. Just try running Browserflow on the sites you're thinking of and you can see for yourself whether it's instantly banned or not.

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2. hmcm55 ◴[18 Nov 21 06:44 UTC] No.29262689[source]▶

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Can confirm, as someone who spent 2 years building software to beat recaptchas/bot management. I literally told DK that there was no way that Browserflow could solve the problems I spent years fighting against. I was wrong... it was humbling.

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