How to solve Cloudflare Challenge with Python

Rajinder Singh
Deep Learning Researcher
15-Sep-2023

⚙️ Prerequisites
- A working proxy
- Python installed
- Capsolver API key
🤖 Step 1: Install Necessary Packages
Execute the following commands to install the required packages:
python
pip install capsolver
pip install os
pip install requests
👨‍💻 Step 2: Python Code for solve Cloudflare Challenge 5s
Here's a Python sample script to accomplish the task:
python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import requests
import time
import tls_client
# TODO: Your api key
API_KEY = ""
proxy = ""
# TODO: Your target site url:
page_url = ""
def call_capsolver():
data = {
"clientKey": API_KEY,
"task": {
"type": 'AntiCloudflareTask',
"websiteURL": page_url,
"proxy": proxy,
}
}
uri = 'https://api.capsolver.com/createTask'
res = requests.post(uri, json=data)
resp = res.json()
task_id = resp.get('taskId')
if not task_id:
print("no get taskId:", res.text)
return
print('created taskId:', task_id)
while True:
time.sleep(1)
data = {
"clientKey": API_KEY,
"taskId": task_id
}
response = requests.post('https://api.capsolver.com/getTaskResult', json=data)
resp = response.json()
status = resp.get('status', '')
if status == "ready":
print("successfully => ", response.text)
return resp.get('solution')
if status == "failed" or resp.get("errorId"):
print("failed! => ", response.text)
return
def request_site(solution):
session = tls_client.Session(
client_identifier="chrome_120",
random_tls_extension_order=True
)
return session.get(
page_url,
headers=solution.get('headers'),
cookies=solution.get('cookies'),
proxy=proxy,
)
def main():
solution = {
"headers": {
"accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7",
"upgrade-insecure-requests": "1",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
"sec-fetch-site": "none",
"sec-fetch-mode": "navigate",
"sec-fetch-user": "?1",
"sec-fetch-dest": "document",
"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
}
}
# first request (check your proxy):
res = request_site(solution)
print('1. response status code:', res.status_code)
if res.status_code != 403:
print("your proxy is good and didn't get the cloudflare challenge")
return
elif 'window._cf_chl_opt' not in res.text:
print('==== proxy blocked ==== ')
return
# call capSolver:
solution = call_capsolver()
if not solution:
return
# second request (verify solution):
res = request_site(solution)
print('2. response status code:', res.status_code)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
⚠️ Change these variables
- PROXY: Update with your proxy details. The format should be http://username:password@ip:port.
- capsolver.api_key: Obtain your API key from the Capsolver Dashboard.
- PAGE_URL: Replace with the URL of the website for which you wish to solve the CloudFlare challenge.
What the CloudFlare Challenge Looks Like

Meanwhile, if you'd like to test your scripts for bot characteristics, BrowserScan's Bot Detection tool can help you identify and refine bot-like behavior in your scripts.
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