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Sessions are free — pay only for traffic
Cloud Browser for Web Scraping
A cloud browser session loads the page the way it would for an actual visitor, scripts and all — by the time your code reads it, the content is already there.
- React, Vue and Angular pages render fully — no empty shell
- Residential, mobile or datacenter IPs — sticky or rotating
- Playwright, Puppeteer and Selenium — usually one changed line
Web Scraping
Your code drives
the browser.
Connect over CDP to our Chromium instead of fetching HTML. It loads the page like a real visitor — all the JS, our proxies, a believable fingerprint — and you read the rendered DOM.
Why Use Cloud Browser Instead of Regular HTTP Requests?
A plain HTTP request pulls down whatever HTML a server sends and nothing more. Works fine for a static page. Falls apart on most of the modern web, because sites built on React, Vue, or Angular don't ship their content in that first response – they build it in the browser, after the JS runs. Point a request-only scraper at one of those pages and you'll get an empty shell back, with the actual data still sitting inside a bundle nobody executed.
Web scraping with cloud browser sessions skips that problem. The page loads the way it would for an actual visitor, scripts and all, and by the time your code reads it, the content is already there. No guessing which endpoint feeds the page, no picking apart a bundle to find the request pattern – just the finished result, ready to grab.
Bypassing Blocks and Anti-Bot Protection at the Browser Level
It used to be enough to send the right headers and get a page back. Not anymore – sites score dozens of small signals before deciding whether a request even looks real:
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Header order, not just which headers are there
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Gaps in timing between actions
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Whether the mouse or scroll behaved like a person's
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Fingerprint quirks: installed fonts, canvas output, that kind of thing
Dynamic JavaScript Rendering and Single Page Applications (SPA)
Single page apps load once, then rewrite themselves as you click around – tabs open, filters apply, results refresh – and none of it shows up in that first response. A cloud browser sits through that same process a visitor would, then reads the page once it settles down. Skip that step and a surprising amount of scraping just quietly fails on anything client-side heavy.
Automatic CAPTCHA Solving and Fingerprint Management
Fonts, canvas output, audio behavior, screen size – together they form a fingerprint, and it gets checked against what a real browser is supposed to look like. Get it wrong and sites flag it fast, sometimes after one or two requests. Call it an antidetect cloud browser, an anti-detect setup, or just an undetectable mode, the job is the same: keep that fingerprint convincing without anyone touching it by hand. CAPTCHA solving usually rides along in the same session too, so a job doesn't sit there waiting on a manual solve every time one pops up.
Integration with Rotating Proxies (Residential and Datacenter)
A session can run through residential, mobile, or datacenter IPs, depending on how touchy the target site is. Rotation can stay sticky for a whole session or switch on a timer – and that choice actually matters. Scraping behind a login wants the same IP the entire time so cookies and session state hold together. Scraping at volume wants the opposite: spread the requests out so no single address takes all the heat.
Works With Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium
You don't have to throw out existing scraping code to make any of this work. Playwright and Puppeteer connect over CDP instead of launching a local Chrome binary, and everything underneath – selectors, waits, extraction – stays exactly as written. Selenium points at a remote address the same way. A crawler built two years ago for local headless Chrome usually needs one changed line, not a rewrite.
- Playwright
- Puppeteer
- Selenium
- Python
- Node.js
Quick Start: Example Code to Connect
Getting a session running takes a few lines:
Add a proxy type and country when the session opens, and the rest of the script barely changes from what would run locally anyway.
scrape.js
const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(connectUrl);const page = await browser.newPage();await page.goto('https://example.com');const data = await page.textContent('body');scrape.js
const browser = await puppeteer.connect({ browserWSEndpoint: connectUrl });const page = await browser.newPage();await page.goto('https://example.com');const data = await page.evaluate(() => document.body.innerText);Efficiency Comparison: Requests vs. Cloud Browser Scraping
Cloud browser scraping costs more per page than a raw request – there's no getting around that, a full browser session just does more work. Where the two actually pull apart:
| Plain HTTP Requests | Floppydata Cloud Browser Scraping | |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript-rendered pages | Comes back empty | Renders fully, same as a real visitor |
| Cost per page | Lower | Higher, though blocking unneeded resources brings it down |
| Login-gated content | No session to hold onto | Cookies and session persist across pages |
| Anti-bot fingerprint | None, easy to flag | Handled automatically |
| Bandwidth | Loads everything | Can skip images, fonts, and CSS |
For static content with no JavaScript and no bot protection, plain requests still win on cost – there's no reason to spin up a full browser for a page that never needed one. Past that point, cloud browser scraping tends to work out cheaper once you count the retries, proxies, and manual patching a request-only setup ends up needing anyway. The math rarely favors requests once a target site starts actively fighting back.