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by warlord2 20 days ago
This is interesting. Why did you build this?
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I was building a browser automation for a website, and kept hitting these unexplainable roadblocks where my requests would yield different responses. I wanted to know why and wrote a basic script that was able to detect that the website was using geolocation block (e.g., "You can't view this content in your country") and my browser automation was egressing from an edge function on a server in a Baltic country.

Once I was able to make this mental connection, I tweaked my browser automation so that for that particular web property I would use a USA-based IP address. After making this fix, the browser automation was able to run successfully!

I think there may be other uses for BotScope, but that's how I started going down this road. Thx for asking!