cloudflare-scraper

Chrome is used to retrieve cloudflare cookies then got is used to perform requests making this solution reliable but also pretty fast.

Version 2 is a complete rewrite:

it doesn't use puppeteer but vanilla chromium,

request package was replaced by got ,

headless support only works on linux out of the box but should be doable on windows or mac os with the help of docker or wsl.

extra features were removed (captcha bypass, etc..)

Install

npm install cloudflare-scraper

Make sure you alse have xfvb linux package installed

# for ubuntu users
sudo apt-get install xvfb

Quick Example

import got from 'cloudflare-scraper';

(async () => {
  try {
    const response = await got.get('https://nowsecure.nl');
    console.log(response.body);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
})();

API

Check got documenatation

Env variables

NODE_CHROMIUM_SKIP_INSTALL (boolean)

By default, chromium is downloaded but on npm install command but you can skip the installation by enabling this variable.

export NODE_CHROMIUM_SKIP_INSTALL=true

CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH (string)

Specify a chrome executable

export CHROME_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/path/to/chrome

CF_SCRAPER_HEADLESS (boolean)

Enable/disable headless mode (enabled by default)

Note: headless mode uses "xfvb" and is only available on linux

export CF_SCRAPER_HEADLESS=false

TODO:

add proxy support
docker example

JimmyLaurent/cloudflare-scraper