Checking Your Browser Before Accessing Message While Accessing An Application Using Chromedriver And Chrome Using Selenium

I am trying to automate a certain type of routine and it was going all well until the website started performing the 'Checking browser...' process (snapshot below). Strangely, it d

Solution 1:

This error message...

...implies that the Cloudflare have detected your requests to the website as an automated bot and subsequently denying you the access to the application.

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Solution

In these cases the a potential solution would be to use the undetected-chromedriver to initialize the Chrome Browsing Context.

undetected-chromedriver is an optimized Selenium Chromedriver patch which does not trigger anti-bot services like Distill Network / Imperva / DataDome / Botprotect.io. It automatically downloads the driver binary and patches it.

• Code Block:

  import undetected_chromedriver as uc
  from selenium import webdriver
  
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
  options.add_argument("start-maximized")
  driver = uc.Chrome(options=options)
  driver.get('https://bet365.com')
  

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• Selenium app redirect to Cloudflare page when hosted on Heroku
• How to bypass being rate limited ..HTML Error 1015 using Python

Solution 2:

You can use time.sleep(6) That should be enough if you are redirected after 5 seconds.