Detect Protection

curl --request POST \
  --url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "url": "<string>",
  "timeout": 15000,
  "country": "<string>"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect"

payload = {
    "url": "<string>",
    "timeout": 15000,
    "country": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({url: '<string>', timeout: 15000, country: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'url' => '<string>',
    'timeout' => 15000,
    'country' => '<string>'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"timeout\": 15000,\n  \"country\": \"<string>\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect")
  .header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"timeout\": 15000,\n  \"country\": \"<string>\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"timeout\": 15000,\n  \"country\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "url": "https://protected-site.com",
  "antibot_systems": [
    {
      "system": "cloudflare_turnstile",
      "confidence": 0.92,
      "details": "Turnstile widget detected in page HTML"
    }
  ],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": true,
  "blocking_type": "cloudflare",
  "recommendation": "Use browser engine with anti_bot enabled",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "duration_ms": 1240
}

{
  "url": "https://scrapebadger.com",
  "antibot_systems": [],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": false,
  "blocking_type": null,
  "recommendation": null,
  "credits_used": 1,
  "duration_ms": 380
}

{
  "url": "https://protected-site.com",
  "antibot_systems": [
    {
      "system": "cloudflare_turnstile",
      "confidence": 0.92,
      "details": "Turnstile widget detected in page HTML"
    }
  ],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": true,
  "blocking_type": "cloudflare",
  "recommendation": "Use browser engine with anti_bot enabled",
  "credits_used": 0,
  "duration_ms": 12
}

POST

web

detect

Detect Protection

curl --request POST \
  --url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "url": "<string>",
  "timeout": 15000,
  "country": "<string>"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect"

payload = {
    "url": "<string>",
    "timeout": 15000,
    "country": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({url: '<string>', timeout: 15000, country: '<string>'})
};

fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'url' => '<string>',
    'timeout' => 15000,
    'country' => '<string>'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"timeout\": 15000,\n  \"country\": \"<string>\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect")
  .header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"timeout\": 15000,\n  \"country\": \"<string>\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"timeout\": 15000,\n  \"country\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "url": "https://protected-site.com",
  "antibot_systems": [
    {
      "system": "cloudflare_turnstile",
      "confidence": 0.92,
      "details": "Turnstile widget detected in page HTML"
    }
  ],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": true,
  "blocking_type": "cloudflare",
  "recommendation": "Use browser engine with anti_bot enabled",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "duration_ms": 1240
}

{
  "url": "https://scrapebadger.com",
  "antibot_systems": [],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": false,
  "blocking_type": null,
  "recommendation": null,
  "credits_used": 1,
  "duration_ms": 380
}

{
  "url": "https://protected-site.com",
  "antibot_systems": [
    {
      "system": "cloudflare_turnstile",
      "confidence": 0.92,
      "details": "Turnstile widget detected in page HTML"
    }
  ],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": true,
  "blocking_type": "cloudflare",
  "recommendation": "Use browser engine with anti_bot enabled",
  "credits_used": 0,
  "duration_ms": 12
}

Quickly scan a URL to identify which anti-bot and CAPTCHA systems are in use. Results are cached per domain for 5 minutes — cached hits cost 0 credits.

Request Body

string

required

The URL to analyze for anti-bot and CAPTCHA protection systems. Must be a valid HTTP or HTTPS URL.

integer

default:15000

Request timeout in milliseconds. Range: 1000 – 60000.

string

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for proxy geo-targeting. Some sites show different protection depending on the visitor’s location.

{ "country": "US" }

Response

string

The analyzed URL.

array

List of anti-bot systems detected on the page.

Show child attributes

string

System name. Common values: cloudflare_turnstile, datadome, akamai, kasada, amazon_waf, imperva, perimeterx.

number

Confidence score from 0.0 to 1.0.

string

Additional detection details.

array

List of CAPTCHA systems detected on the page.

Show child attributes

string

System name. Common values: recaptcha_v2, recaptcha_v3, hcaptcha, geetest.

number

Confidence score from 0.0 to 1.0.

string

Additional detection details.

boolean

Whether the page is currently showing a blocking/challenge page.

string

Type of blocking detected (e.g., cloudflare, datadome). null if not blocked.

string

Suggested scraping strategy based on the detected protection. For example: "Use browser engine with anti_bot enabled".

integer

Credits charged for this request. 1 for a fresh scan, 0 for a cached result.

integer

Response time in milliseconds.

Examples

Basic detection

curl -X POST "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://scrapebadger.com"}'

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={"url": "https://scrapebadger.com"}
)

detection = response.json()
for system in detection["antibot_systems"]:
    print(f"{system['system']}: {system['confidence']}")

const res = await fetch("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/web/detect", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ url: "https://scrapebadger.com" })
});
const detection = await res.json();
console.log(detection.antibot_systems);

Detect with geo-targeting

{
  "url": "https://region-restricted-site.com",
  "country": "DE",
  "timeout": 20000
}

Error Responses

Status	Description
`400`	Invalid URL
`402`	Insufficient credits
`429`	Rate limit exceeded
`500`	Unexpected server error

{
  "url": "https://protected-site.com",
  "antibot_systems": [
    {
      "system": "cloudflare_turnstile",
      "confidence": 0.92,
      "details": "Turnstile widget detected in page HTML"
    }
  ],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": true,
  "blocking_type": "cloudflare",
  "recommendation": "Use browser engine with anti_bot enabled",
  "credits_used": 1,
  "duration_ms": 1240
}

{
  "url": "https://scrapebadger.com",
  "antibot_systems": [],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": false,
  "blocking_type": null,
  "recommendation": null,
  "credits_used": 1,
  "duration_ms": 380
}

{
  "url": "https://protected-site.com",
  "antibot_systems": [
    {
      "system": "cloudflare_turnstile",
      "confidence": 0.92,
      "details": "Turnstile widget detected in page HTML"
    }
  ],
  "captcha_systems": [],
  "is_blocked": true,
  "blocking_type": "cloudflare",
  "recommendation": "Use browser engine with anti_bot enabled",
  "credits_used": 0,
  "duration_ms": 12
}

Authorizations

x-api-key

string

header

required

Body

application/json

url

string

required

The URL to analyze.

timeout

integer

default:15000

Request timeout in milliseconds.

country

string

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for proxy geo-targeting.

Response

200 - application/json

Detection result

url

string

antibot_systems

array

captcha_systems

array

is_blocked

boolean

blocking_type

string | null

recommendation

string | null

credits_used

integer

duration_ms

integer

Scrape URL

Overview

API Reference

Detect Protection

Request Body

Response

Examples

Basic detection

Detect with geo-targeting

Error Responses

Authorizations

Body

Response

​Request Body

​Response

​Examples

​Basic detection

​Detect with geo-targeting

​Error Responses

Authorizations

Body

Response

Request Body

Response

Examples

Basic detection

Detect with geo-targeting

Error Responses