[CODE] Bypassing Cloudflare Turnstile with Python & Playwright Stealth

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Bypassing Cloudflare Turnstile with Python & Playwright Stealth

Basic BeautifulSoup and Requests libraries are dead for web scraping. Every major site now uses Cloudflare Turnstile or DataDome to block automated traffic. To scrape valuable data (like Real Estate listings or Flight prices), you must use headless browsers with stealth patches.

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The Playwright Stealth Setup:
Standard Playwright leaks browser fingerprints (like navigator.webdriver = true). You must use the playwright-stealth library to spoof these variables.

import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
from playwright_stealth import stealth_async

async def scrape_secure_site():
    async with async_playwright() as p:
        # Must use a real User-Agent, not a headless one
        browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
        context = await browser.new_context(
            user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
        )
        page = await context.new_page()
        
        # Apply stealth patches before navigating
        await stealth_async(page)
        
        await page.goto("https://target-cloudflare-site.com")
        
        # Wait for Cloudflare challenge to pass natively
        await page.wait_for_timeout(5000)
        
        print(await page.title())
        await browser.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(scrape_secure_site())