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title Scrapling — Web Scraping Library with Anti-Detection
domain ops
subdomain scraping
tags
scrapling
scraping
curl-cffi
playwright
anti-detection
source github.com/D4Vinci/Scrapling
status published
confidence 0.8
created 2026-07-01
verified_date
domain_expert

Problem

Standard scraping tools (requests, curl) are easily detected and blocked by anti-bot systems. Need a library that combines multiple fetching backends with anti-detection.

Root Cause

Anti-bot systems check TLS fingerprints, User-Agent consistency, and request patterns. Standard Python requests library has a distinctive TLS fingerprint that's easily blocked.

Solution

Installation

# Create venv (required for externally-managed Python)
python3 -m venv scrapling-env
source scrapling-env/bin/activate

# Install with all dependencies
pip install "scrapling[all]"

# Key dependencies auto-installed:
# - curl_cffi (TLS fingerprint impersonation)
# - playwright (browser automation)
# - browserforge (header generation)

Basic Usage

from scrapling import Fetcher

fetcher = Fetcher()

# Simple GET
page = fetcher.get("https://example.com", timeout=15)
print(page.status)
print(page.css("title::text").get())

# With browser (for JS-heavy sites)
page = fetcher.get("https://example.com", headless=True)
print(page.text[:500])

Architecture

scrapling uses curl_cffi underneath, which can impersonate browser TLS fingerprints. This helps bypass some anti-bot systems but does NOT bypass network-level blocks (GFW SNI filtering).

When to Use

Scenario Use scrapling?
Site has anti-bot (Cloudflare) ✅ TLS fingerprint helps
Site is behind GFW ❌ Same network path
Simple API endpoint ❌ Use requests/curl
JS-heavy site ✅ Playwright backend

Verification

  1. pip install "scrapling[all]" succeeds
  2. from scrapling import Fetcher imports without error
  3. fetcher.get("https://example.com") returns 200

Notes

  • scrapling is NOT a replacement for Playwright — it's a higher-level wrapper
  • curl_cffi impersonation helps with anti-bot but not network-level blocks
  • For GFW-blocked sites, you still need a proxy regardless of scraping tool
  • Source: github.com/D4Vinci/Scrapling (v0.4.9)