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Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers

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545 points mmh0000 | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.469s | source
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ec109685 ◴[03 Apr 25 16:59 UTC] No.43572497[source]▶
There are API’s that chrome provides that allows servers to validate whether the request came from an official chrome browser. That would detect that this curl isn’t really chrome.

It’d be nice if something could support curl’s arguments but drive an actual headless chrome browser.

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1. binarymax ◴[03 Apr 25 17:03 UTC] No.43572551[source]▶
I’m interested in learning more about this. Are these APIs documented anywhere and are there server side implementation examples that you know of?

EDIT: this is the closest I could find. https://developers.google.com/chrome/verified-access/overvie... ...but it's not generic enough to lead me to the declaration you made.

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2. KTibow ◴[03 Apr 25 20:20 UTC] No.43574866[source]▶
I think they confused Chrome and Googlebot.