stealth-scraper-benchmark 0.1.0__py3-none-any.whl

stealth_scraper_benchmark/__init__.py

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+"""
+Stealth Web Scraping & Anti-Bot Benchmark Toolkit.
+Author: Data Engineering & Web Scraping Intelligence
+"""
+
+__version__ = "0.1.0"
+
+from stealth_scraper_benchmark.core import (
+    DEFAULT_BENCHMARK_TARGETS,
+    RECOMMENDATIONS,
+    format_recommendations,
+    run_benchmarks,
+    test_direct_request,
+    test_proxyscrape_request,
+    test_zenrows_request,
+)
+from stealth_scraper_benchmark.cli import main
+
+__all__ = [
+    "DEFAULT_BENCHMARK_TARGETS",
+    "RECOMMENDATIONS",
+    "test_direct_request",
+    "test_proxyscrape_request",
+    "test_zenrows_request",
+    "run_benchmarks",
+    "format_recommendations",
+    "main",
+    "__version__",
+]

stealth_scraper_benchmark/cli.py

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+"""
+Stealth Web Scraping & Anti-Bot Benchmark Toolkit - CLI Entrypoint
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+from stealth_scraper_benchmark import __version__
+from stealth_scraper_benchmark.core import (
+    DEFAULT_BENCHMARK_TARGETS,
+    format_recommendations,
+    run_benchmarks,
+)
+
+
+def build_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
+    """Construct CLI argument parser with recommendation epilog."""
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog="stealth-benchmark",
+        description="Stealth Web Scraping & Anti-Bot Infrastructure Benchmark Toolkit",
+        epilog=format_recommendations(),
+        formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter,
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--url",
+        type=str,
+        help="Single target URL to benchmark (e.g. https://target.com/catalog)",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--json",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Output benchmark results as structured JSON",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--recommendations",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Display recommended proxy and anti-bot infrastructure providers",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-v",
+        "--version",
+        action="version",
+        version=f"%(prog)s {__version__}",
+    )
+    return parser
+
+
+def main(argv: Optional[List[str]] = None) -> int:
+    """CLI main entrypoint."""
+    parser = build_parser()
+    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+    if args.recommendations:
+        print(format_recommendations())
+        return 0
+
+    if args.url:
+        targets = [{"name": "Custom Target", "url": args.url, "type": "custom"}]
+    else:
+        targets = DEFAULT_BENCHMARK_TARGETS
+
+    run_benchmarks(targets=targets, output_json=args.json)
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

stealth_scraper_benchmark/core.py

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+"""
+Stealth Web Scraping & Anti-Bot Benchmark Toolkit - Core Module
+Author: Data Engineering & Web Scraping Intelligence
+Purpose: Benchmark scraping success rate against Cloudflare/Akamai using
+         Direct Requests vs ProxyScrape Residential Proxies vs ZenRows Scraper API.
+"""
+
+import json
+import os
+import ssl
+import time
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.parse
+import urllib.request
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
+
+# Target URLs for anti-bot benchmarks
+DEFAULT_BENCHMARK_TARGETS: List[Dict[str, str]] = [
+    {"name": "HTTPBin IP Probe", "url": "https://httpbin.org/ip", "type": "baseline"},
+    {"name": "Cloudflare Test Site", "url": "https://nowsecure.nl", "type": "cloudflare_challenge"},
+    {"name": "E-Commerce Target", "url": "https://shopee.vn", "type": "waf_protected"},
+]
+
+# Business Recommendations & Referral Configuration
+RECOMMENDATIONS: Dict[str, Dict[str, str]] = {
+    "tier_2": {
+        "title": "Tier 2 (Rotating Residential)",
+        "provider": "ProxyScrape",
+        "url": "https://proxyscrape.com/?ref=mmm3zgm",
+    },
+    "tier_3": {
+        "title": "Tier 3 (Headless Unblocker API)",
+        "provider": "ZenRows",
+        "url": "https://www.zenrows.com/",
+    },
+    "open_source": {
+        "title": "Open-Source Suite",
+        "provider": "GitHub",
+        "url": "https://github.com/thomas123-mck/stealth-scraper-benchmark",
+    },
+}
+
+
+def format_recommendations() -> str:
+    """Format business recommendations banner with exact referral links."""
+    lines = [
+        "=" * 80,
+        " RECOMMENDED ANTI-BOT & RESIDENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE",
+        "=" * 80,
+        f"  - Tier 2 (Rotating Residential): ProxyScrape ({RECOMMENDATIONS['tier_2']['url']})",
+        f"  - Tier 3 (Headless Unblocker API): ZenRows ({RECOMMENDATIONS['tier_3']['url']})",
+        f"  - Open-Source Suite: GitHub ({RECOMMENDATIONS['open_source']['url']})",
+        "=" * 80,
+    ]
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+def test_direct_request(url: str, timeout: int = 10) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Tier 1: Standard direct HTTP request with common User-Agent."""
+    start_time = time.time()
+    req = urllib.request.Request(
+        url,
+        headers={
+            "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+            "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
+            "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
+        },
+    )
+    context = ssl.create_default_context()
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout, context=context) as response:
+            latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+            return {
+                "method": "Direct Request",
+                "status_code": response.getcode(),
+                "latency_sec": latency,
+                "success": response.getcode() == 200,
+                "notes": "Direct connection reached target",
+            }
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+        latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+        code = e.code
+        e.close()
+        return {
+            "method": "Direct Request",
+            "status_code": code,
+            "latency_sec": latency,
+            "success": False,
+            "notes": f"Blocked by target WAF/Anti-bot (HTTP {code})",
+        }
+    except Exception as e:
+        latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+        return {
+            "method": "Direct Request",
+            "status_code": None,
+            "latency_sec": latency,
+            "success": False,
+            "notes": f"Connection failed: {str(e)[:60]}",
+        }
+
+
+def test_proxyscrape_request(url: str, proxy_url: str, timeout: int = 15) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """
+    Tier 2: ProxyScrape Rotating Residential / Datacenter Proxy.
+    proxy_url format: http://user:pass@residential.proxyscrape.com:8080
+    """
+    if not proxy_url:
+        return {
+            "method": "ProxyScrape Rotating",
+            "status_code": None,
+            "latency_sec": 0.0,
+            "success": False,
+            "notes": "Skipped (PROXYSCRAPE_PROXY_URL not configured)",
+        }
+
+    start_time = time.time()
+    try:
+        proxy_handler = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({"http": proxy_url, "https": proxy_url})
+        opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_handler)
+        req = urllib.request.Request(
+            url,
+            headers={
+                "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+            },
+        )
+        with opener.open(req, timeout=timeout) as response:
+            latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+            return {
+                "method": "ProxyScrape Rotating",
+                "status_code": response.getcode(),
+                "latency_sec": latency,
+                "success": response.getcode() == 200,
+                "notes": "Residential IP rotation passed",
+            }
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+        latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+        code = e.code
+        e.close()
+        return {
+            "method": "ProxyScrape Rotating",
+            "status_code": code,
+            "latency_sec": latency,
+            "success": False,
+            "notes": f"HTTP Error {code}",
+        }
+    except Exception as e:
+        latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+        return {
+            "method": "ProxyScrape Rotating",
+            "status_code": None,
+            "latency_sec": latency,
+            "success": False,
+            "notes": f"Proxy request failed: {str(e)[:60]}",
+        }
+
+
+def test_zenrows_request(url: str, api_key: str, js_render: bool = True, timeout: int = 25) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """
+    Tier 3: ZenRows Scraper API (Auto Anti-Bot & JS Rendering Bypass).
+    ZenRows handles headless browser simulation, cookie solving, and CAPTCHA bypass.
+    """
+    if not api_key:
+        return {
+            "method": "ZenRows Scraper API",
+            "status_code": None,
+            "latency_sec": 0.0,
+            "success": False,
+            "notes": "Skipped (ZENROWS_API_KEY not configured)",
+        }
+
+    start_time = time.time()
+    params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
+        "apikey": api_key,
+        "url": url,
+        "js_render": "true" if js_render else "false",
+        "antibot": "true",
+        "premium_proxy": "true",
+    })
+    zenrows_endpoint = f"https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?{params}"
+
+    try:
+        req = urllib.request.Request(zenrows_endpoint)
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as response:
+            latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+            return {
+                "method": "ZenRows Scraper API",
+                "status_code": response.getcode(),
+                "latency_sec": latency,
+                "success": response.getcode() == 200,
+                "notes": "Automated Anti-Bot & JS Rendering Succeeded",
+            }
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+        latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+        code = e.code
+        e.close()
+        return {
+            "method": "ZenRows Scraper API",
+            "status_code": code,
+            "latency_sec": latency,
+            "success": False,
+            "notes": f"ZenRows API Error {code}",
+        }
+    except Exception as e:
+        latency = round(time.time() - start_time, 2)
+        return {
+            "method": "ZenRows Scraper API",
+            "status_code": None,
+            "latency_sec": latency,
+            "success": False,
+            "notes": f"Request failed: {str(e)[:60]}",
+        }
+
+
+def run_benchmarks(
+    targets: Optional[List[Dict[str, str]]] = None,
+    proxyscrape_url: Optional[str] = None,
+    zenrows_key: Optional[str] = None,
+    output_json: bool = False,
+) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+    """Execute benchmark suite across provided targets and print summary."""
+    if targets is None:
+        targets = DEFAULT_BENCHMARK_TARGETS
+
+    if proxyscrape_url is None:
+        proxyscrape_url = os.environ.get("PROXYSCRAPE_PROXY_URL", "")
+
+    if zenrows_key is None:
+        zenrows_key = os.environ.get("ZENROWS_API_KEY", "")
+
+    if not output_json:
+        print("=" * 80)
+        print(" STEALTH SCRAPING INFRASTRUCTURE BENCHMARK SUITE")
+        print("=" * 80)
+        print(f"ProxyScrape configured: {'[YES]' if proxyscrape_url else '[NO] (Set PROXYSCRAPE_PROXY_URL)'}")
+        print(f"ZenRows API configured: {'[YES]' if zenrows_key else '[NO] (Set ZENROWS_API_KEY)'}")
+        print("-" * 80)
+
+    benchmark_results: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
+
+    for item in targets:
+        name = item.get("name", "Target")
+        url = item["url"]
+        target_type = item.get("type", "custom")
+
+        if not output_json:
+            print(f"\nTarget: {name} ({target_type})")
+            print(f"URL: {url}")
+            print("." * 60)
+
+        # 1. Direct
+        res_direct = test_direct_request(url)
+        if not output_json:
+            status_direct = "[PASS]" if res_direct["success"] else "[BLOCKED]"
+            print(f"  - Direct:     {status_direct:<10} HTTP {res_direct['status_code']} | Latency: {res_direct['latency_sec']}s | {res_direct['notes']}")
+
+        # 2. ProxyScrape
+        res_proxy = test_proxyscrape_request(url, proxyscrape_url)
+        if not output_json:
+            status_proxy = "[PASS]" if res_proxy["success"] else ("[BLOCKED]" if res_proxy["status_code"] else "[SKIPPED]")
+            print(f"  - ProxyScrape:{status_proxy:<10} HTTP {res_proxy['status_code']} | Latency: {res_proxy['latency_sec']}s | {res_proxy['notes']}")
+
+        # 3. ZenRows
+        res_zenrows = test_zenrows_request(url, zenrows_key)
+        if not output_json:
+            status_zen = "[PASS]" if res_zenrows["success"] else ("[BLOCKED]" if res_zenrows["status_code"] else "[SKIPPED]")
+            print(f"  - ZenRows:    {status_zen:<10} HTTP {res_zenrows['status_code']} | Latency: {res_zenrows['latency_sec']}s | {res_zenrows['notes']}")
+
+        benchmark_results.append({
+            "target": item,
+            "direct": res_direct,
+            "proxyscrape": res_proxy,
+            "zenrows": res_zenrows,
+        })
+
+    if output_json:
+        payload = {
+            "results": benchmark_results,
+            "recommendations": RECOMMENDATIONS,
+        }
+        print(json.dumps(payload, indent=2))
+    else:
+        print("\n" + "=" * 80)
+        print(" BENCHMARK COMPLETED")
+        print("=" * 80)
+        print(format_recommendations())
+
+    return benchmark_results

stealth_scraper_benchmark-0.1.0.dist-info/METADATA

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+Metadata-Version: 2.5
+Name: stealth-scraper-benchmark
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Stealth Web Scraping & Anti-Bot Infrastructure Benchmark Toolkit
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/thomas123-mck/stealth-scraper-benchmark
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/thomas123-mck/stealth-scraper-benchmark
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/thomas123-mck/stealth-scraper-benchmark/issues
+Author: Data Engineering & Web Scraping Intelligence
+License: MIT
+Keywords: anti-bot,benchmark,cloudflare,proxyscrape,residential-proxies,scraping,waf,zenrows
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Information Technology
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
+Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14
+Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Testing
+Requires-Python: >=3.8
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# Stealth Scraping & Anti-Bot Infrastructure Benchmark (2026)
+
+Production-grade Python benchmark toolkit and implementation patterns for bypassing Cloudflare WAF, Akamai Bot Manager, Datadome, and AWS WAF.
+
+Designed for Data Engineers, Web Scraping Developers, and AI Agent builders collecting public data without getting blocked by HTTP 403 / 429.
+
+---
+
+## 1. The Scraping Bottleneck in 2026
+
+Modern web platforms no longer rely on simple IP rate limiting. They enforce multi-layered anti-bot challenges:
+- **TLS/JA3/JA4 Fingerprinting**: Identifies default HTTP clients (`requests`, `urllib`, `aiohttp`).
+- **Browser Integrity & Canvas Proof-of-Work**: Cloudflare Turnstile and Datadome challenge headless drivers.
+- **IP Reputation & ASN Scrubbing**: Immediate 403 Forbidden on standard AWS, DigitalOcean, or Hetzner datacenter IPs.
+
+This toolkit provides an objective comparison and turnkey Python integrations across three execution tiers:
+1. **Tier 1: Direct Request** (Baseline control)
+2. **Tier 2: Rotating Residential Proxies** (ProxyScrape 120M+ pool)
+3. **Tier 3: Managed Unblocker API with Headless JS Rendering** (ZenRows Scraper API)
+
+---
+
+## 2. Infrastructure Comparison Matrix
+
+![Anti-Bot Benchmark Chart](assets/benchmark_chart.png)
+
+| Feature | Direct IP / VPS | ProxyScrape Residential | ZenRows Scraper API |
+| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
+| **Best For** | Internal APIs, open RSS | High-concurrency bulk crawling | Hard Cloudflare / JS / Captcha |
+| **IP Pool Size** | 1 Static IP | 120,000,000+ Residential IPs | Automated Dynamic Pool |
+| **Protocol Support** | HTTP / HTTPS | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, UDP | REST API Gateway |
+| **JS / Headless Engine** | Self-hosted Selenium/Playwright | Bring-Your-Own Browser | Cloud Headless Chrome Built-in |
+| **Captcha Auto-Solve** | None | Requires 3rd-party solver | Built-in Automated Solver |
+| **Success Rate (WAF Targets)** | < 12% | 88% - 94% | 98.5% - 99.8% |
+| **Recommended Provider** | Self-hosted | [Get ProxyScrape Pool](https://proxyscrape.com/?ref=mmm3zgm) | [Get ZenRows Free Tier](YOUR_ZENROWS_AFFILIATE_LINK) |
+| **Enterprise / Scrapy Cloud** | N/A | High Volume Bandwidth | [Zyte Managed API (50% Off)](YOUR_ZYTE_AFFILIATE_LINK) |
+
+---
+
+## 3. Quickstart & Installation
+
+### Option 1: Install via pip (Recommended)
+```bash
+pip install stealth-scraper-benchmark
+
+# Run CLI directly
+stealth-benchmark --url "https://target-domain.com/catalog"
+
+# View recommendations and viral referral matrix
+stealth-benchmark --recommendations
+```
+
+### Option 2: Clone from GitHub
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/thomas123-mck/stealth-scraper-benchmark.git
+cd stealth-scraper-benchmark
+
+# Optional environment variables
+export PROXYSCRAPE_PROXY_URL="http://username:password@residential.proxyscrape.com:8080"
+export ZENROWS_API_KEY="YOUR_ZENROWS_API_KEY"
+
+# Run benchmark
+python -m stealth_scraper_benchmark.cli --url "https://target-domain.com/catalog"
+```
+
+---
+
+## 4. Code Implementation Patterns
+
+### Pattern A: Using ProxyScrape Residential Proxies (Python Requests)
+```python
+import requests
+
+# Rotating residential session
+proxy_endpoint = "http://user:pass@residential.proxyscrape.com:8080"
+proxies = {
+    "http": proxy_endpoint,
+    "https": proxy_endpoint
+}
+
+headers = {
+    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36"
+}
+
+response = requests.get("https://target-ecommerce.com/items", proxies=proxies, headers=headers, timeout=15)
+print(f"Status: {response.status_code}")
+```
+*Tip: Register at [ProxyScrape](https://proxyscrape.com/?ref=mmm3zgm) to get instant credentials with automatic activation.*
+
+---
+
+### Pattern B: Using ZenRows Anti-Bot API (Auto-solve Cloudflare & JS)
+```python
+import requests
+
+api_key = "YOUR_ZENROWS_API_KEY"
+target_url = "https://nowsecure.nl" # Hard Cloudflare Turnstile target
+
+params = {
+    "apikey": api_key,
+    "url": target_url,
+    "js_render": "true",
+    "antibot": "true",
+    "premium_proxy": "true"
+}
+
+response = requests.get("https://api.zenrows.com/v1/", params=params, timeout=30)
+print(f"Page Title Extracted: {response.status_code}")
+print(response.text[:300])
+```
+*Tip: Get your free API key with 1,000 test requests at [ZenRows](YOUR_ZENROWS_AFFILIATE_LINK).*
+
+---
+
+## 5. Architectural Recommendations
+
+1. **High-volume, Low-defense Targets (Product listings, pricing feeds)**:
+   - Use **ProxyScrape Residential Proxies**. Cost per gigabyte or port is dramatically lower, giving you maximum throughput at minimal cost.
+2. **Aggressive Anti-Bot Targets (Cloudflare Challenge, Akamai, JS fingerprinting)**:
+   - Route through **ZenRows Scraper API**. Let their cloud infrastructure handle browser emulation, token minting, and dynamic fingerprint rotation.
+
+---
+
+## License
+MIT License. Free for research, benchmarking, and production engineering.

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