# niespodd/browser-fingerprinting

Analysis of Bot Protection systems with available countermeasures 🚿. How to defeat anti-bot system 👻 and get around browser fingerprinting scripts 🕵️‍♂️ when scraping the web?

Repository: https://github.com/niespodd/browser-fingerprinting
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/browser-fingerprinting
Homepage: https://niespodd.github.io/browser-fingerprinting/
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Topics: bot, detection, stealth, scraper, webscraping, automation, chromium-browser, bot-detection, fingerprinting, crawler, recaptcha, browser-fingerprinting, x-kpsdk-ct, abck, reese84, arkose, perimeterx, aws-waf-token
Last push: 2026-07-27T20:32:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2048, "days_push": 37, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5125, forks 275 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:10.948204+00:00)

## What it is
An educational guide and analysis repository explaining how bot protection systems (PerimeterX, Akamai, Kasada, Arkose, reCAPTCHA, etc.) detect automated browsers, with countermeasures for evading browser fingerprinting during web scraping. It includes curated tooling recommendations for different scraping scenarios.

## Use cases
- bypass bot detection when scraping websites
- avoid browser fingerprinting in a web scraper
- understand how anti-bot systems like PerimeterX or Kasada work
- scrape sites behind Cloudflare or AWS WAF
- make Puppeteer or Playwright undetectable
- solve captcha challenges like reCAPTCHA or Arkose during crawling
- automate social media accounts without getting blocked

## When to choose
- you are building a web scraper and getting blocked by anti-bot systems
- you want to learn how browser fingerprinting and bot detection work
- you need guidance on choosing proxies, antidetect browsers, or stealth tooling for a scraping scenario

## When to avoid
- you need a ready-made production scraping library rather than a guide
- you want guaranteed, maintained code - this is primarily documentation and analysis with no license
- your use case is unrelated to web scraping or bot evasion

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, security, developer-tools
- domain: crawlers, security, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: bot-detection, browser-fingerprinting, anti-bot, stealth-scraping, captcha, web-automation, guide, automation, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- niespodd/browser-fingerprinting (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:10.948204+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:02:04.431380+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/niespodd/browser-fingerprinting (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:10.948204+00:00, sha 20c82b1c194f)
  - homepage: https://niespodd.github.io/browser-fingerprinting/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:56:55.500648+00:00, sha 79cc274e3218)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.