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.
⚡ 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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Originally reported by dev.to