curl-impersonate (via) “A special build of curl that can impersonate the four major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Safari & Firefox. curl-impersonate is able to perform TLS and HTTP handshakes that are identical to that of a real browser.”
I hadn’t realized that it’s become increasingly common for sites to use fingerprinting of TLS and HTTP handshakes to block crawlers. curl-impersonate attempts to impersonate browsers much more accurately, using tricks like compiling with Firefox’s nss TLS library and Chrome’s BoringSSL.
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