Many websites use Cloudflare security checks for anti-scrapers. When you open these websites in Octoparse, you may see the error below:
It keeps loading but cannot bypass the security check. What should we do in this case? Here are the steps to follow:
Step 1. Go to the Task Settings
Step 2. Select Edge 130 as the browser version and save
Step 3. Turn on Browse mode to manually resolve the captcha
After solving the captcha and building your workflow, we need to solve the captcha again when it runs. Please know that the Cloudflare captcha can only be solved when you run your task locally.
Step 4. Run your task locally
Step 5. Click Pause and click Show Browser
Solve the captcha in the browser.
Step 6. Click resume to see the task run