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Python binding for curl-impersonate fork via cffi. A http client that can impersonate browser tls/ja3/http2 fingerprints.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2024-12-30 · latest 2026-07-21

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    curl_cffi - Python binding for curl-impersonate
    story by gregsadetsky · 2026-07-21 · 0 comments
  2. …or an alternative. Either way, the first library I reach for in that situation is curl_cffi https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi
  3. …or derivatives as noobs, who will come back asking why page X does not work in scraping mechanisms. https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi https://github.com/encode/httpx https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy https://github.com/apify/crawlee
    comment by renegat0x0 · 2025-10-03 · in How I block all 26M of your curl requests
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    Curl_cffi
    story by handfuloflight · 2025-06-29 · 0 comments
  5. …There's also Python bindings for the fork for anyone who uses Python: https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi
  6. https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi/releases/expanded_as...
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2024-12-31 · in Curl-Impersonate
  7. Any reason you didn’t use https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi ?
    comment by hk__2 · 2024-12-30 · in Curl-Impersonate
  8. …Python, very helpful for making HTTP reqs without the overhead of running an entire browser stack: https://github.com/lexiforest/curl_cffi I can't help but feel like these are the dying breaths of the open Internet though. All the…
    comment by cle · 2024-12-30 · in Curl-Impersonate