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Curl_cffi's 82% Bypass Rate Crushes Requests—2026 Scraping Tool Benchmarks

Hit a Cloudflare wall with requests? Curl_cffi slips through at 82% success, barely slower. This data-driven showdown picks winners for your next scrape.

Benchmark table: web scraping tools success rates on Cloudflare sites

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Curl_cffi bypasses TLS fingerprints at 82% success, crushing requests' 15%.
  • Playwright for JS sites; Camoufox for heavy anti-bot like Cloudflare React.
  • Scrapy scales same-site crawls; async curl_cffi for multi-domain volume.

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