Yea the header trick and BeautifulSoup thing worked fine early in the year, but Amazon's leveled up hard - they've got datadome v3 now, which literally analyzes your HTTP/2 frames and can sniff out static headers and basic requests library stuff. So you're gonna need something like curl_cffi to mess with TLS fingerprinting or Playwright to act like a real human, and spoiler alert, this article doesn't touch any of that. And that whole just throw residential proxies and headers at it and you'll dodge 70-80% of captcha thing is stale.you're looking at more like 35-55% success these days, which means skipping over managed solutions like apify is kind of a mistake - especially if you're running 200k+ pages monthly, because apify'll actually save you money compared to building and maintaining your own janky infrastructure. Nobody here mentions behavioral biometrics - stuff like tracking mouse jitter, click timing, and scroll speed - which Amazon's now using to flag sketchy bot behavior no matter how good your headers look
Yea the header trick and BeautifulSoup thing worked fine early in the year, but Amazon's leveled up hard - they've got datadome v3 now, which literally analyzes your HTTP/2 frames and can sniff out static headers and basic requests library stuff. So you're gonna need something like curl_cffi to mess with TLS fingerprinting or Playwright to act like a real human, and spoiler alert, this article doesn't touch any of that. And that whole just throw residential proxies and headers at it and you'll dodge 70-80% of captcha thing is stale.you're looking at more like 35-55% success these days, which means skipping over managed solutions like apify is kind of a mistake - especially if you're running 200k+ pages monthly, because apify'll actually save you money compared to building and maintaining your own janky infrastructure. Nobody here mentions behavioral biometrics - stuff like tracking mouse jitter, click timing, and scroll speed - which Amazon's now using to flag sketchy bot behavior no matter how good your headers look