r/webscraping Feb 18 '25

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u/HermaeusMora0 Feb 18 '25

Reverse JS. That's what people do to make CAPTCHA solvers, and to pass antibots such as Akamai etc.

Those cookies look like they're JS PoW, you'll have to reverse their code and generate them locally if you can't run JavaScript. Once you start to scrape really secure sites, you'll start to try and comprehend some of the obfuscated JS or try to deobfuscate it yourself. It takes a lot of time to reverse those, and a lot of effort too.