I'm trying to use Node Red to scrape the ingredients lists of various products from a supermarket's website. When I send an http request to the supermarket's website I receive the response "access denied" followed by a link to the edgesuite website. People who'd reported similar issues usually find…

Your http request node URL is not correct and gives error, clears when i remove the 1. The user agent field was also blank , when i add it it seems to work fine for me. e.g. [{"id":"ea11a4b36247ec49","type":"inject","z":"d1395164b4eec73e","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}…

Thanks a million! A TLS proxy indeed seems to do the trick. The ja3proxy suggested in that comment did not work for me, but the one from GitHub - rosahaj/tlsproxy: HTTP proxy with per-request uTLS fingerprint mimicry and upstream proxy tunneling. Currently WIP. runs smoothly.

I get the same error with your flow.

Strange as these two flows i get to different results 200 and 403 [{"id":"ea11a4b36247ec49","type":"inject","z":"d1395164b4eec73e","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","x":950.…

HTTP request results in "access denied (edgesuite)" error

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bakman2 30 October 2024 15:09 2

when searching google, there were issues for mealie (a recipe aggregate app) as well, someone provided a comment:

ah.nl uses TLS fingerprinting detection to do bot detection

you could use a tls proxy, or perhaps use puppeteer instead ?

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HTTP request results in "access denied (edgesuite)" error

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