ScrapingBypass API and proxy IP to solve Cloudflare intercepting crawlers

When collecting network data, Cloudflare's interception often causes problems for crawlers. Cloudflare employs various security measures, including the presence of captchas designed to identify and block bot access. In this article, I will explore two solutions, API mode and proxy IP, to deal with Cloudflare's interception and make crawlers work more smoothly and efficiently.

The API service pattern provides us with a way to send HTTP requests through the API. This mode helps hide the real crawler identity, making it harder for our HTTP requests to be identified as bots by Cloudflare. By sending the request to the API, the API will continue to request the target website for us, so that Cloudflare will think that these requests come from the API instead of directly from the robot, thereby reducing the risk of being blocked.

However, to successfully bypass Cloudflare's captcha, we need to ensure that the API itself is not identified as malicious. To achieve this, the following steps can be taken:

Use a reasonable User-Agent: In HTTP requests, set a reasonable User-Agent field so that it looks like a request from a legitimate browser, rather than a simple crawler. Simulate human behavior: When sending requests, simulate human access behavior patterns, such as appropriate time intervals, random click patterns, etc., to avoid too regular request frequency, so as not to be regarded as robots. Handling Cookies: For websites that require login status, cookies must be handled correctly and session status maintained to ensure continuous and effective access in API mode. Proxy IPs are another effective way to address Cloudflare blocking. By using a proxy server to send HTTP requests, we can hide the real IP address of the crawler, making it difficult for the target website to trace the source of the request. When choosing a proxy IP, you need to pay attention to the following points:

Highly anonymous proxy: Choose a highly anonymous proxy server to ensure that the original client IP information is not included in the request header, so that the target website cannot easily discover our real IP. IP pool management: maintain a stable IP pool, regularly update the proxy IP, avoid using the proxy IP blocked by the target website, balance the request load, and avoid frequent requests for the same IP. Monitoring and rotation: Regularly monitor the availability and performance of proxy IPs, replace unavailable or slow proxies, and ensure continuous and stable crawler work. Summary When dealing with Cloudflare's interception, crawler engineers can adopt two solutions: API mode and proxy IP. The API mode reduces the risk of being identified as a robot by sending HTTP requests to the API to indirectly access the target website. At the same time, we need to pay attention to simulating human behavior, setting reasonable User-Agent and handling cookies. On the other hand, the proxy IP can effectively hide the real crawler IP address and reduce the probability of being blocked. Choosing a high-anonymity proxy, IP pool management, and monitoring rotation are the main points to pay attention to when using a proxy IP.

In addition to API mode and proxy IP, I would also like to suggest to use ScrapingBypass API to assist the work. ScrapingBypass API is a professional cloud proxy service that can provide stable and efficient proxy IPs to help us deal with Cloudflare's interception more easily. The ScrapingBypass API has the ability to automatically process verification codes and intelligently identify the anti-crawling strategy of the target website, which can further reduce the risk of being blocked. Using ScrapingBypass API as one of the solutions can save us the time and energy of maintaining proxy IPs ourselves, allowing us to focus more on the core work of crawlers.

Using the ScrapingBypass API, you can easily bypass Cloudflare's anti-crawler robot verification, even if you need to send 100,000 requests, you don't have to worry about being identified as a scraper.

A ScrapingBypass API can break through all anti-anti-bot robot inspections, easily bypass Cloudflare, CAPTCHA verification, WAF, CC protection, and provide HTTP API and Proxy, including interface address, request parameters, return processing; and set Referer, browse Browser fingerprinting device features such as browser UA and headless status.