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woffoortoday at 1:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

Most scrapped websites have https, so you need to perform a MITM attack. Scrapers will probably notice that.


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voakbasdatoday at 1:48 PM

No, you just need to stand up your own website and feed the scraper a URL to it.

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ErroneousBoshtoday at 3:36 PM

How would https affect it?

If they're making a request to my machine to go and curl a page, how do they even know whether or not it was https?

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