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Improved User Agent emulation #40

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@msjonker msjonker commented Jan 7, 2021

This applies techniques from https://github.com/VeNoMouS/cloudscraper to more closely mimic requests from a browser, so there is a better chance of not being detected as a bot to have to deal with a captcha in the first place. In my testing, these changes created identical requests to cloudscraper, allowing me to access pages that were previously protected with a captcha.

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For my purposes, I needed to be able to scrape https://bouqs.com/, but without these changes, I was blocked by a challenge. After these changes, requests go through with no challenge. I'm not terribly familiar with the Cloudflare firewall, but I know they compute a "Bot Threat Score" and I think these changes help to lower it enough that, at least in my case, it allows my requests through.

Removes the ignoring of the Connection header
Splits out distinct concerns into instances and uses composes the final instance from them
Removes SSL emulation if Node < 12 is being used
@msjonker msjonker changed the title Improved User Agent mimicking Improved User Agent emulation Jan 9, 2021
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