Bypass anti-bot and emulate geographic location with Firecrawl proxy and location options

domain: docs.firecrawl.dev · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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Documented steps

  1. In scrapeOptions set proxy to 'basic' (none-to-basic anti-bot), 'enhanced' (advanced anti-bot, up to 5 credits/request), or 'auto' (default — retries enhanced if basic fails).
  2. Prefer 'auto' to only pay enhanced credits when a site actually defeats basic.
  3. Set scrapeOptions.location = { country: '<ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, e.g. DE>', languages: ['de-DE'] } to emulate a country and Accept-Language.
  4. For geo-targeted jobs set location on /map and /extract too where supported.
  5. Combine with scrapeOptions.mobile:true to emulate a mobile device.

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