Basic scraping scripts stopped working reliably years ago. The question is not whether web scraping is dead. It is whether the approach you are using was ever going to survive contact with modern infrastructure. If your requests-based script gets blocked by Cloudflare or a WAF, that is not a scraping problem. That is a browser fingerprinting problem. Sites no longer just check whether your IP is on a blocklist. They check whether your request looks like it came from a real br