How do I get past Cloud Flare?

[WarrenLaz]

Im trying to scrape a website and its scrapping the cloud flare content instead of the actual webpage. I just want an example of how to bypass this, sorry if this is a dumb question.

[Vishnu8299]

Hey Warren! 👋 Not a dumb question at all — lots of people run into this when scraping sites protected by Cloudflare.

If you're getting the Cloudflare page instead of the actual content, it's likely due to their anti-bot JS challenge. You can try this simple fix in Python using cloudscraper:

import cloudscraper

scraper = cloudscraper.create_scraper()
response = scraper.get("https://example.com")

print(response.text)  # Should return the real page content

For more advanced protection (like bot fingerprinting), you can use a headless browser like Playwright:

from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright

with sync_playwright() as p:
    browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
    page = browser.new_page()
    page.goto("https://example.com", timeout=60000)
    print(page.content())
    browser.close()

Let me know if you need help tweaking this for a specific site. Happy to help! 🙌.