Best Methods to Bypass Akamai With Playwright

To overcome Akamai’s defenses, we’ll detail three methods: using Scrapeless (the recommended approach), the Playwright Stealth plugin, and premium proxies. Each method includes detailed steps, code, and graphic descriptions.

Method 1: Use Scrapeless to Bypass Akamai(Recommended)

Scrapeless is a web scraping API tailored to defeat anti-bot systems like Akamai. It generates critical tokens (e.g., _abck and bm_sz cookies, sensor data) and manages proxies, ensuring high success rates with minimal effort. By integrating Scrapeless with Playwright, you can bypass Akamai’s checks effectively.

Why Scrapeless Excels

1. Token Generation: Provides Akamai-specific cookies and sensor data to pass initial verification.
2. Proxy Rotation: Uses premium proxies to mask your IP and avoid blocks.
3. Ease of Use: Handles complex bypassing logic, reducing manual configuration.

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Generate Akamai Cookies
Use the Scrapeless /api/v1/unlocker/request endpoint (Web Unlocker: Akamaiweb Cookie) to fetch _abck and bm_sz cookies.
Code:

   import json

   conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.scrapeless.com")
   payload = json.dumps({
   "actor": "unlocker.akamaiweb",
   "input": {
       "type": "cookie",
       "url": "https://www.zalando.fr/release-calendar/homme-sneakers/",
       "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",

   },
   "proxy": {
       "country": "FR"
   }
   })
   headers = {
   'Content-Type': 'application/json',
   'x-api-token': 'YOUR API KEY'
   }
   conn.request("POST", "/api/v1/unlocker/request", payload, headers)
   res = conn.getresponse()
   data = res.read()
   print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Why it's problematic:

Modern websites easily detect automated browsers through JavaScript fingerprinting
Akamai cookies often have additional properties tied to the original browser
The way Playwright executes JavaScript differs from a normal browser
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