feat(scraping): add --curl-file to replay browser headers - #13
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Bot-detection services often check the full request header set, not just the User-Agent, so --user-agent alone is not enough to get through. --curl-file reads a request copied with the browser dev tools "Copy as cURL" (bash or cmd flavour, or '-' for stdin) and replays its headers and cookies on every scraping request. - Parses -H/--header, -b/--cookie, -A/--user-agent, -e/--referer, with support for $'...' quoting and Chrome's Windows cmd escaping. - Drops headers that would break urllib or only fit the original request (Host, Content-Length, Accept-Encoding, conditional headers, ...). - Cookies and auth/CSRF headers are only sent to the host the command was copied from, including across redirects (--follow-extern safe). - --user-agent, if given, overrides the imported User-Agent. - Geocoding requests to Nominatim are unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HNXpLGLxWEMVQ15XAvffbT
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Full disclosure, this code was written by Claude. However, it successfully addressed my use case, so I figured I could at least share it here.
Bot-detection services often check the full request header set, not just the User-Agent, so --user-agent alone is not enough to get through. --curl-file reads a request copied with the browser dev tools "Copy as cURL" (bash or cmd flavour, or '-' for stdin) and replays its headers and cookies on every scraping request.