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Unraveling Cloudflare’s Protection

From our experience at  TrawlingWeb , we’ve seen the evolution and emergence of new web unlockers in the market. Initially, we favored using full browsers with Playwright, but over time, super APIs became a more appealing choice. Even though Playwright is free, a full browser requires more resources and time compared to a Scrapy program with an integrated unlocker. After crunching the numbers, we realized that the costs associated with data extraction were comparable, if not more advantageous, when using the latest and most cost-effective unlockers, which also turned out to be more reliable. However, in the dynamic world of data extraction, solutions are fleeting. In a blink of an eye, sites protected by Cloudflare and Datatome became inaccessible through these unlockers. This led us to the pressing need to seek innovative alternatives and solutions. Why is it essential to bypass Cloudflare’s bot protection? According to our data, Cloudflare dominates with a staggering 84% of the marke