Web Scraping Prevention
Web scraping is the process of extracting data from websites using automated scripts or bots. If your website shows data that is expensive to collect or compute (e.g., flight connections and prices), a bad actor or competitor could steal it and use it for their own purposes.
Protecting the data with CAPCHAs hurts user experience and server-side bot detection based on IP address reputation is not reliable. Fingerprint Pro provides client-side bot detection that can recognize even sophisticated bots and browser automation tools.
- The
flightsAPI endpoint on this page is protected by Fingerprint Pro Bot Detection. - Using a normal browser, you can search for flights and see the results.
- Try scraping the results using Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, Cypress, or a similar tool.
- The endpoint will return an error message if the request is coming from a bot.
- Try tampering with the
requestIdparameter, request headers or changing your IP address, see if that helps 🙂 - To see how the page would behave without Bot Detection, reload it with
?disableBotDetection=1in the URL. - See the source code for this and other use cases on Github .
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