Adrian Valverde

Scrapeless Developer | Webscraping, automation & reverse engineer

Webscraping Community:

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

Spain mandated that every driver must carry a "V16" emergency beacon by 2026. They're geolocated.

There's a public map showing every active one in real time.

And the API "encrypts" its response by XOR-ing it with the literal string "utf-8". That's the whole scheme 🧵

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

@ZahidulIsl65224 really good list!

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

Lesson:

The hard part of scraping AI chat tools was never the prompt. It was staying logged in, looking human, and surviving the next anti-bot update.

When that's abstracted into one POST request, "you can't scrape ChatGPT" stops being true.

Docs: https://t.co/SuYcFOzB0e

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

Everyone says you "can't scrape ChatGPT." It's behind Cloudflare, a proof-of-work challenge....

So I ran it through one API call instead. No browser. No proxies to manage. Just a prompt in, structured data out. 🧵

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

What people actually use this for:

- Tracking how ChatGPT answers questions about their brand vs competitors
- Monitoring which products/sources it recommends (shopping + web search)
- Geo-testing answers per country with the "country" param
- Feeding fresh AI responses into research, dashboards and content pipelines
- QA-ing their own GPT/app outputs at scale

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

@SGharmoz @Fra_nkXBT scrapeless also 😎

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

@midudev Quien lo diria, una empresa que ofrece anti-bots, ofreciendo servicio de scrapear webs con bots...
😂

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

@Onlgig scrapeless 😀

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

@SantiTorAI que buen proyecto

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

@Kartikmaan_ @TraderLuo You can also try scrapeless, we offer really good prices for proxies and good scraping tools! ☺️

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

@MiguelMaestroIA Es una locura! ☺️

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

@sabir_huss50540 it's pretty good resource for scraping, yes

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

Lesson:
Surface-level stealth is an arms race you lose on every Chrome update. The detectable thing isn't your fingerprint — it's the patch you used to fake it.
Move the patch into the binary and there's nothing left to detect.
https://t.co/oSSiwFDsXy

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

Every stealth browser library you've used patches Chromium with JavaScript injections. Antibot systems detect the patches themselves.
CloakBrowser modifies the fingerprints in the C++ source and compiles them into the binary.
Detection sees a real browser — because it is one 🧵

[Adrian Valverde @AdrianvValverde]

Zero config to start:
pip install cloakbrowser
Binary auto-downloads (~200MB), auto-generates a random fingerprint seed each launch. Or pin a seed for a consistent "returning visitor" identity.
Free, open source, no usage limits