Bots lie about who they are, ignore robots.txt, and come from a gazillion different IPs.

Current plan is to borrow a Switch 2 from a friend in a couple years, to play the games we’re really excited for.

Seeing that the "explore the Switch 2” game wasn’t included with the system just pissed me off. I’m not paying to play an interactive manual.

Odd. I just tried

curl https://www.scrapingcourse.com/cloudflare-challenge

and got

Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue

I’m clearly not on the same setup as you are, but my off-the-cuff guess is that your curl command was issued from a system that cloudflare already recognized (IP whitelist, cookies, I dunno).

Anyways, I’m reading through this blog post on using cURL with cloudflare-protected sites and I’m finding it interesting.

Last I checked, cloudflare requires the user to have JavaScript and cookies enabled. My institution doesn’t want to require those because it would likely impact legitimate users as well as bots.

It’s also a huge problem for library/archive/museum websites. We try so hard to make data available to everyone, then some rude bots come along and bring the site down. Adding more resources just uses more resources–the bots expand to fill the container.

I also love it. It was my go-to back when I had to walk inexperienced sysadmins through configuring stuff, in my tech support days. I really appreciate all the commands being listed at the bottom.

Hitachi also makes a very popular and effective personal massage device that they’re adamant is not a sex toy. In some circles the name “Hitachi” is synonymous with the device.

We were talking about power tools at work and I said I’m happy with my Hitachi corded drill. I was disappointed no one even blinked.

Last time I went to a new-to-me grocery store that I didn’t have a loyalty card for, I just used [local area code]-867-5309. Jenny hasn’t failed me yet.