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[โ€“] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Odd. I just tried

curl https://www.scrapingcourse.com/cloudflare-challenge

and got

Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

I'm clearly not on the same setup as you are, but my off-the-cuff guess is that your curl command was issued from a system that cloudflare already recognized (IP whitelist, cookies, I dunno).

Anyways, I'm reading through this blog post on using cURL with cloudflare-protected sites and I'm finding it interesting.

[โ€“] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 21 hours ago

Of course their challenge requires those things. How else could they implement it? Most users will never be presented with a challenge though and it is trivial to disable if you don't want to ever challenge anyone. I was just saying CF blocks ML crawlers.