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by archon810 740 days ago
I tried signing up and scanning apkmirror.com but it immediately came up with a 403. Perhaps your user agent is blocked, you should probably use a custom user agent.
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It is cloudflare that blocked us, we scrape using a regular chrome instance (with the latest user-agent), but cloudflare are sometimes very aggressive in their blocking. I'm busy adding a proxy option to handle these cases automatically, and some way to whitelist our scraper.