Introduction Cloudflare’s Captcha solutions are one of the biggest hurdles Python developers usually face while writing a web scraper. Cloudflare offers various solutions like bot detection, CAPTCHA challenges (including the newer Turnstile verification), and IP blocking to prevent automated website access for data retrieval. These protections often result in “Verify You Are Human” checks, 403 Forbidden errors, or the challenging 1020 Access Denied responses. In this post of the scraper series, we will learn about Cloudflare and its service that hinders web scraping and how you can use ScraperAPI’s APIs to bypass Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA/protection techniques. Understanding Cloudflare Protection What is Cloudflare? A global network service provider that offers website security,…