curl-impersonate VS estela

> us[e] Akamai to block scraping

Would https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate help? Haven’t tried with Akamai, but did help with another widely used CDN that shall remain unnamed (but has successfully infused me with burning hate for their products after a couple of years’ worth of using an always-on VPN to bypass Internet censorship and/or a slightly unusual browser).

But before that, I had to create a development environment where I could do the coding. I used Docker and created a docker-compose.yml file on my local system to build a container. At first, I did that on an Arm based computer and the first problem appeared. Although RSS-Bridge was working fine, I couldn't get any data, and the reason was that Ko-Fi.com uses Cloudflare CDN. This is something that a lot of people had issues with in the past. RSS-Bridge solves that problem by using a special build of curl that can impersonate the four major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Safari & Firefox. But unfortunately, that library doesn't work well on Arm-based systems, so I had to move to my trusty Intel-based Linux computer.

Curl-Impersonate: https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate A special build of curl that can impersonate Chrome & Firefox

I haven’t seen a custom build of Wget, but for Curl there is curl-impersonate[1].

[1] https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

If you're just trying to pull a file, the curl-impersonate could be a low-effort option.

This solution is using requests, you can also do this in scrapy, and if you are planning to run more crawlers you can use estela which is a spider management solution.

You may want to check out [estela](https://estela.bitmaker.la/docs/), which is a spider management solution, developed by [Bitmaker](https://bitmaker.la) that allows you to run [Scrapy](https://scrapy.org) spiders.

We are currently running a closed beta of Bitmaker Cloud (free and unlimited). Bitmaker Cloud gives you easy management of scraping workloads via a web dashboard and API. Only Scrapy spiders are supported at the moment (additional languages/frameworks are on the roadmap). Bitmaker Cloud is powered by estela, an elastic web scraping cluster running on Kubernetes. estela is a modern alternative to proprietary platforms such as Scrapy Cloud, as well as OSS projects such as scrapyd. The source code of estela and estela-cli is available on Github.

Estela: A webscraping framework on to of Kubernetes, which manage scaling (by Breno Colom)

We released estela for this and other purposes, check it out, maybe it will suit your needs:

https://github.com/bitmakerla/estela

Only Scrapy support atm, but additional scraping frameworks/language are on the roadmap. Would be good to know which ones to prioritize over others :-)