# FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr

Proxy server to bypass Cloudflare protection

Repository: https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flaresolverr
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: puppeteer, cloudflare, proxy, chrome, chromium, docker, server, api, rest, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-25T06:10:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2276, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 99, "gap_med": 18.0, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 15316, forks 1226 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:09.634715+00:00)

## What it is
FlareSolverr is a proxy server that bypasses Cloudflare and DDoS-GUARD protection by solving browser challenges with Selenium and undetected-chromedriver. It exposes a REST API that returns solved cookies and HTML so other HTTP clients can access protected sites.

## Use cases
- bypass cloudflare challenge when scraping a website
- get cloudflare clearance cookies for indexers like jackett or prowlarr
- run a self-hosted proxy to fetch pages behind ddos-guard
- solve cloudflare captcha challenges via a rest api
- integrate cloudflare bypass into a docker-based scraping stack

## When to choose
- you need to fetch content from Cloudflare-protected sites programmatically
- you want a self-hosted Docker service with a simple REST API
- your scraping tools (indexers, scrapers) support FlareSolverr as a resolver

## When to avoid
- you need high-throughput scraping - each request spawns a memory-heavy browser
- the target site uses advanced bot detection that undetected-chromedriver cannot pass
- you need a lightweight in-process library rather than a standalone server

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, http-server, web-scraping, security
- domain: web-development, security, crawlers, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, python
- tags: cloudflare-bypass, ddos-guard, selenium, undetected-chromedriver, rest-api, scraping-proxy, docker, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.634715+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 2026-08-29T17:06:22.336927+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:09.634715+00:00, sha 25cb1302d028)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/flaresolverr/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:04:16.861798+00:00, sha d088bc00e746)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.