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Shape Bot Defence (renamed F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense)

What is Shape Bot Defence?

Shape Bot Defence detect bots AI and Machine Learning applied to the behaviour of the bot.

Our View on Shape Bot Defence

How to Identify Shape Bot Defence

Wappalyzer Chrome Extension doesn't seem to recognize it, we've noticed that certain websites protected by Shape, if opened by a browser in incognito mode and with developer tools tab opened, they stop to work. Closing the developer tools tab, they work again.

Recommended approach to Shape Bot Defence

BEST CHOICE: at the moment, the best approach is a Playwright + Firefox with the right options.

How yo bypass Shape according to The Web Scraping Club

Posts about Shape

Reference and interesting links

Shape Bot Defence