{"id":217638,"date":"2026-02-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/openclaw-users-are-allegedly-bypassing-anti-bot-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:20:12","slug":"openclaw-users-are-allegedly-bypassing-anti-bot-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/openclaw-users-are-allegedly-bypassing-anti-bot-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-cloudflare-scrapling\/\">OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-cloudflare-scrapling\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-cloudflare-scrapling\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 14:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">In San Francisco,<\/span> it feels like OpenClaw is everywhere. Even, potentially, some places it\u2019s not designed to be. According to posts on social media, people appear to be using the viral AI tool to scrape websites and access information, even when those sites have taken explicit anti-bot measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">One of the ways they are allegedly doing this is through an open source tool called Scrapling, which is designed to bypass anti-bot systems like Cloudflare Turnstile. While Scrapling, which was built with Python, works with multiple types of AI agents, OpenClaw users appear to be particularly fond of the software. On Monday, viral posts promoting Scrapling as a tool for OpenClaw users started to spread on X. Since its release, Scrapling has been downloaded over 200,000 times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cNo bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare nightmares,\u201d reads one viral post this week about the open source tool. \u201cOpenClaw tells Scrapling what to extract. Scrapling handles the stealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Cloudflare is not enthused. The company already blocked previous versions of Scrapling, since users of the open source software kept trying to get around anti-scraping protections. This week, the company was working on a patch for Scrapling\u2019s most recent iteration. \u201cWe make changes, and then they make changes,\u201d says Dane Knecht, chief technology officer at Cloudflare. He says the company\u2019s trove of website data and its ability to track trends has given it the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cWe already had a signal that they&#8217;re starting to get a higher ability to get around us,\u201d says Knecht. \u201cThe team of security operations engineers had already been working on a new set of mediations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Large language models were trained on the corpus of the internet\u2014and the process involved a lot of scraping. In some sense, Scrapling users are following in the footsteps of the original model builders, but on a more individualized scale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Over the past few years, website owners have attempted to put up additional&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-cloudflare-scrapling\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-cloudflare-scrapling\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-25 14:00:00 Source Domain: www.wired.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/699de3a0e46e4fa7442b798a\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/AI-Lab-OpenClaw-Users-Are-Attempting-to-Scrape-Sites-with-Anti-Bot-Protections-Business.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-217638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217640,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217638\/revisions\/217640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}