Anti-Bot Detection Checker

Check a site for Cloudflare, CAPTCHA, and bot-management protection.

What Is Anti-Bot Detection?

Many sites run protection layers to block bots. WAFs like Cloudflare, CAPTCHA challenges, and bot-management platforms like DataDome, PerimeterX, Akamai Bot Manager, and Imperva. Before building a scraper for a site, it helps to know upfront what you're dealing with.

What This Tool Checks

It makes a request to the URL you enter and inspects the response headers, cookies, and page content for known signatures of:

WAF: Cloudflare
CAPTCHA services: reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile
Bot-management platforms: DataDome, PerimeterX/HUMAN, Akamai Bot Manager, Imperva/Incapsula, Kasada
Generic blocks: unrecognized HTTP 403/429/503 responses

Test With Stealth Mode

If protection is detected, click Test with stealth mode to re-run the check through the Geekflare Web Scraping API's stealth mode. A good way to see whether Geekflare's infrastructure can get past the same protection that blocked a request. On top of stealth mode, you can also try with rotating proxy which is only available in paid plan.

Reading the Results

Detecting a CDN or WAF doesn't automatically mean a site is unscrapeable. Many sites run Cloudflare with light or no bot-protection rules enabled. CAPTCHA challenges and dedicated bot-management platforms are much stronger signals that a scraper will need extra handling to work reliably.

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bash

curl -X POST https://api.geekflare.com/webscraping \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'