Pain point · Permissions & security · Annoyance
Cloudflare JS challenges make simple API scraping cumbersome
Part of the theme “Challenges disrupt non-browser clients” · 3 reports · see them all
1 source thread · first seen 2024-11
Summary
The author says Cloudflare's JavaScript challenges complicate API reverse engineering, sometimes requiring a full browser and virtual screen just to perform a simple task.
- Affects
- People reverse engineering APIs
- Workaround
- Run a browser with a virtual screen and load the full page.
Evidence
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“fingerprinting is rampant and there are JS challenges in cloudflare, imperva, etc which make it trickier”