conv2mp4 VS selenium-powershell

Not a direct answer to your question, but I wrote a similar script a while back that does exactly what you're describing. Maybe you can use it for comparison/inspiration. https://github.com/BrianDMG/conv2mp4-ps/blob/master/files/init/buildqueue.ps1 is where the file queue is established.

There is a powershell module for it as well Selenium-powershell

If the website is using a JS library like React and the spinning you’re referring to is the JS library trying to pull data back to drop into the DOM then you can look at the Selenium PowerShell module to see if expected HTML gets dropped in. Info on the PowerShell module: https://github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell

I'm trying to access a website that is protected by Cloudflare. Whenever I use Invoke-WebRequest, I get a 403 error. Even if I use Selenium, I get a checkbox to verify that I am human. Is there any way to access the website using Powershell or is Cloudflare designed to stop this type and similiar requests?

I've used Selenium and PowerShell to do it in the past.

I've had great success using selenium in powershell 5.1 (it was very slow with ps core for some reason): https://github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell

for PS + Selenium, review the following: https://github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell/blob/master/Examples/A-Simple-Google-Search.ps1

If you want to do this in PowerShell, I'd start by looking at the popular selenium module: Here is the first search result I found for this topic: https://saucelabs.com/resources/articles/print-page-pdf. Here is the PowerShell repo: https://github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell

This module and the included browser drivers are great for automating browser stuff https://github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell

Powershell module from adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell: PowerShell module to run a Selenium WebDriver. (github.com) but the problem also persists if i load the driver manually in powershell.