cloudflare-scrape comes in handy to extract data from a website protected by Cloudflare. Read on to learn more. 

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Let’s take a look at how our Support Team is ready to help customers with cloudflare scrape.

All About cloudflare-scrape

Data scraping is a particular technique where we extract data from the output of another program. In fact, data scraping forms the main part of web scraping, which involves extracting important information from a website.

Understandably, companies or organizations do not prefer having their content downloaded or reused by third-parties for unauthorized purposes. As a result, there are several content protection strategies available to keep prevent web scraping. For instance, Cloudflare relies on Cloudflare Bot Management to identify malicious data scraping bots.

However, if you are looking for a way to bypass Cloudflare’s anti-bot page, our experts have a solution.

1. To begin with, run the following command:

   pip install cfscrape

   We can also upgrade with this command:

   pip install -U cfscrape
2. Then, check if our machine has Node with the following command:

   node -v

   If not, we can install it as seen below:

   For Ubuntu 18.04 or higher:

   apt-get install nodejs

   For macOS:

   brew install node

   This helps us solve the JavaScript challenges

We can easily use cloudflare-scrape by calling the create_scraper() function. Furthermore, we can use it the same way as we use Requests. In other words, we will call scraper.get() or requests.post() rather than request,get() or requests.post().

Additionally, if we have an existing Request session, we can proceed as seen here:

session = requests.session()
session.headers = ...
scraper = cfscrape.create_scraper(sess=session)

Furthermore, we can integrate cloudflare-scrape with other tools and applications. We can bypass the Javascript challenge page by including both the cookies Cloudflare uses in all the HTTP requests we make.

According to our Support Team, we can retrieve the cookies with the help of cfscrape.get_tokens(). Additionally, we can retrieve the full cookie HTTP header with cfscrape.get_cookie_string().

At the end of the day, we can use cloudflare-scrape only with Javascript challenges and not a reCAPTCHA challenge.

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Conclusion

In a nutshell, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares introduced us to cloudflare-scrape.