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

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545 points mmh0000 | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.3s | 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. darrenf ◴[03 Apr 25 17:15 UTC] No.43572695[source]▶
Are you referring to the Web Environment Integrity[0] stuff, or something else? 'cos WEI was abandoned in late 2023.

[0] https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-In...