{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/5"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"An anti-detection HTTP client that handles TLS fingerprinting, WAF challenge detection and solving, cookie caching, retries, rate limiting, and proxy support to bypass bot detection on protected websites.","skillfed_tags":["web-scraping","anti-detection","waf-bypass"],"use_cases":["Scrape websites protected by Cloudflare, AWS WAF, or other bot-detection layers without triggering blocks.","Build a resilient API client that automatically rotates TLS fingerprints and solves WAF challenges on 403 responses.","Test web applications' anti-bot defenses by simulating diverse browser fingerprints and handling challenge flows.","Fetch data from sites that require cookie persistence and rate-limit compliance across multiple requests.","Embed HTTP requests in iframe or XHR contexts to impersonate browser-initiated traffic."],"what_it_does":"wafer-py is an HTTP client built on wreq (a Rust + BoringSSL library) designed to evade bot detection and WAF challenges. It handles TLS fingerprinting to mimic browser identities, detects and solves common WAF challenges, manages cookies with RFC 6265 scoping, retries failed requests with backoff, enforces rate limiting per hostname, and supports proxies and DNS pinning. It offers both synchronous and asynchronous session APIs, plus one-shot module-level convenience functions.\n\nThe package is explicitly experimental and not recommended for production. It targets developers building web scrapers, API clients, or tools that need to work around anti-bot protections. Responses expose a requests/httpx-compatible interface with metadata on retries, rotations, challenge types, and whether the body is a client-rendered shell. Configuration covers timeouts, retry limits, fingerprint pools, embed mode for iframe/XHR impersonation, and optional browser-based challenge solving.","worth_installing":"Yes, with conditions. Install if you need to bypass WAF detection and accept the experimental status\u2014the package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and low install friction. Do not install for production systems without thorough testing; the authors explicitly warn against production use and expect breaking changes. Suitable for development, testing, and research on protected endpoints."},"id":"wafer-py","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/wafer-py","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/wafer-py.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/wafer-py/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-08-10","license_spdx":"Apache-2.0","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"wafer-py","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Anti-detection HTTP client for Python"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":213759,"position":9430,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.4.9"}