I have a program: Playwright+Crawlee+Firefox+rotating proxies used to scrape jobs from wellfound.com In may 2024 (and earlier) it worked quite well, many months, despite captcha protection on site.
Today I get HTTP 403 and captcha (from ct.captcha-delivery.com). My code is not changed!
Proxies: iproyal.com, "residential-proxies", session time 1 min ("sticky session"). What I did: in the same session accessed URL1 and than URL2. URL1 has no captcha, URL2 contains info I need, and is/was protected with captcha.
In the past the trick with "URL1 and than URL2 in the same session" worked well. Today I get captcha when accessing URL2.
What I tried: switched between Chrome and Firefox in my code. For Chrome tried with `chromium.use(stealthPlugin()) `and without it.
Still see that captcha.
Tried to access the site with normal GUI browser (Firefox) through iproyal.com "sticky session": accessing URL1 and than URL2: no captcha.
It means: proxies are still OK, they are not detected!
Bottom line: something changed, bot detection improved.
What is our answer?
Is it something similar to this:
https://discord.com/channels/801163717915574323/1293244368249032895/1293244368249032895
@Jeno what solution you found?