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Crawlee is excellent for large-scale crawling but Cloudflare-protected sites are still a challenge -- even with Playwright, datacenter IPs get blocked quickly.
Idea
anybrowse uses residential Chrome (real IP, real browser) and could work as a fallback request handler for URLs that fail Cloudflare challenges.
Conceptually:
constrouter=createPlaywrightRouter();router.addDefaultHandler(async({ request, page })=>{// Try standard Playwright firstconstcontent=awaitpage.content();if(content.includes('cf-browser-verification')||content.length<500){// Fallback to anybrowse for Cloudflare sitesconstr=awaitfetch('https://anybrowse.dev/scrape',{method: 'POST',headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},body: JSON.stringify({url: request.url})});constdata=awaitr.json();// Process data.markdown}});
Not suggesting a native integration necessarily -- just sharing the pattern in case it's useful for Cloudflare use cases.
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This discussion was converted from issue #3506 on March 31, 2026 14:01.
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Crawlee is excellent for large-scale crawling but Cloudflare-protected sites are still a challenge -- even with Playwright, datacenter IPs get blocked quickly.
Idea
anybrowse uses residential Chrome (real IP, real browser) and could work as a fallback request handler for URLs that fail Cloudflare challenges.
Conceptually:
Not suggesting a native integration necessarily -- just sharing the pattern in case it's useful for Cloudflare use cases.
Docs: https://anybrowse.dev/docs
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