Smart Web Scraper — Block Diagnosis & URL Debugger
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$20.00 / 1,000 url diagnoseds
Smart Web Scraper — Block Diagnosis & URL Debugger
Fetches URLs with intelligent fallback strategies and honest block detection. Diagnoses Cloudflare challenges, TLS mismatches, 429s, and JS requirements. Tries direct fetch, TLS downgrade, and archive.org, then reports what worked and why.
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$20.00 / 1,000 url diagnoseds
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Smart Web Scraper — Diagnose blocks, extract content
Why does your scraper break on certain sites? Stop guessing.
This actor fetches a URL and tells you exactly what went wrong — Cloudflare challenge, TLS mismatch, rate limit, JS requirement, or just a slow server. It tries three strategies (direct, TLS downgrade, archive.org fallback) and reports what worked.
What it returns per URL
{"url": "https://reddit.com","status_code": 200,"blocked": true,"blocked_reason": "Cloudflare challenge page (Please wait for verification...)","source": "direct","tls_fallback_used": false,"server": "cloudflare","response_time_ms": 423,"redirect_chain": ["https://reddit.com", "https://www.reddit.com"],"security_headers_found": [],"archive_fallback": {"available": false},"diagnosis": "Blocked by bot wall: Cloudflare... | Server: cloudflare"}
Who it's for
- Anyone building scrapers who spends time debugging blocks
- QA engineers testing whether a site is reachable from different networks
- Researchers collecting data from tricky sites
- Developers who want a cheap, honest health check for a URL
Input
{"urls": ["https://example.com", "https://reddit.com"]}
Output per URL
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
status_code | HTTP status or 0 if unreachable |
blocked | True if a bot wall was detected |
blocked_reason | The detected block pattern |
source | direct, archive.org, or TLS fallback |
response_time_ms | Server response time |
server | Server header from response |
security_headers_found | List of detected security headers |
archive_fallback | Whether archive.org had a copy |
diagnosis | Plain-English explanation |
What it does not do
- This is a diagnostic scraper, not a generic crawler. It fetches one URL at a time with detailed metadata.
- It does not execute JavaScript. If a site requires JS, it will report the block reason.
- It does not maintain sessions, cookies, or proxies.
- It is honest about what it finds. If it can't get through, it tells you why.
Pricing
$0.02 per URL diagnosed.

