lwthiker/curl-impersonate

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A special build of curl (and libcurl) whose TLS and HTTP/2 handshakes are identical to real browsers like Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox. It can be used as a drop-in command-line tool or linked as a library to evade TLS/HTTP2 client fingerprinting.

Use cases

• make curl requests that look like a real browser
• bypass TLS fingerprinting blocks when scraping
• test how a server fingerprints HTTP clients
• fetch sites that block non-browser HTTP clients
• integrate browser-like TLS handshakes into a scraper
• debug JA3/HTTP2 fingerprint differences

When to choose

• you need HTTP requests indistinguishable from Chrome or Firefox at the TLS/HTTP2 level
• you want a curl-like CLI or libcurl replacement for fingerprint-sensitive endpoints
• you're scraping services that fingerprint clients

When to avoid

• you just need ordinary HTTP requests without fingerprint evasion
• you need full browser behavior like JavaScript execution - use a headless browser instead
• you need a pure-Python solution rather than a compiled binary

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

http-client security networking cli security privacy developer-tools crawlers networking cli cross-platform curl tls-fingerprinting http2-fingerprinting browser-impersonation anti-bot-bypass web-scraping linux macos docker

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