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Like `requests`, but shittier.

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### WebRequest

Like the `requests` library, but shittier.

Provides convenience functions for writing web-scrapers and other web-interactive
things. Built-in support for working through CloudFlare's garbage JS browser
checks without any intervention, as well as some other [garbage web-application
firewall shits](https://sucuri.net/website-firewall/) that seem intent on
breaking the internet.

Built-in user-agent randomization. Support for fetching rendered content via
headless chrome. Built on top of my [ChromeController](https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController)
project, so it can avoid some of the [spectacularly stupid design
decisions](https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium-google-code-issue-archive/issues/141) in selenium.

Default support for compressed transfers.

Basically, the overall goal is to have a simple library that acts *as much as
possible* like a "real" browser. Ideally, it should be indistinguishable from
an actual browser from the perspective of the remote HTTP(s) server.

Q: Why
A: Because I started writing horrible web-scraper things in 2008, when the
requests library wasn't really a thing.

Q: Why *still*, then?
A: Anger and spite, mostly.

Q: No, really, *why*
A: Ok, Because I want to download the internet, and idiots post stuff, and then
try to "protect" it from scraping with stupid jerberscript bullshit.

## Note: If your non-interactive webite requires me to execute javascript to view it, FUCK YOU, you are a horrible person who is actively ruining the internet.

License:
WTFPL



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