I built a web scraper in Rust that bypasses Cloudflare without a browser
Every AI agent has the same problem. You ask it to read a webpage and it comes back with a 403, or worse, 5000 tokens of navigation bars and cookie banners. I spent the last few months building web...

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Every AI agent has the same problem. You ask it to read a webpage and it comes back with a 403, or worse, 5000 tokens of navigation bars and cookie banners. I spent the last few months building webclaw to fix this. The problem Try fetching any real website with a standard HTTP client. Most of them will block you. Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, they all look at your TLS fingerprint before the request even reaches the server. The usual fix is spinning up a headless Chrome. That works, but now you need 500MB of browser, it takes 2-3 seconds per page, and you still get all the HTML noise. What webclaw does differently Instead of launching a browser, webclaw impersonates one at the TLS level. The TCP handshake, cipher suites, extensions, everything looks like Chrome 142. Most anti-bot systems pass the request through because the fingerprint is already valid. Then the extraction engine scores every DOM node by text density, semantic tags, and link ratio. Navigation, ads, footers, cookie banne