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Browser API: an introduction

How anti-bot retrieve information to create fingerprints

Pierluigi Vinciguerra
Sep 9, 2023
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When creating a new web scraper, especially if we know the target website has some anti-bot protection, it can be useful to test the tech stack used using online pages like Sannysoft

They basically test our browser’s Web API and attributes like the Window.Navigator and check if the values are plausible or not for a human being browsing the web.

But let’s…

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