Curl Adapter

A module that plugs directly into the Python requests library and replaces the default urllib3 HTTP adapter with cURL, equipped with TLS fingerprint-changing capabilities.

Why?

Specifically, this module is meant to be used with the "curl impersonate" python bindings (lexiforest/curl_cffi), in order to send HTTP requests with custom, browser-like TLS & HTTP/2 fingerprints for bypassing sites that detect and block normal python requests (such as Cloudflare for example).

Note

Even though curl_cffi already has an API that *mimicks* the requests library, it comes with some compatibility issues (e.g. response.raw not available, response.history, differences in headers, cookies, json, etc.).

With curl-adapter, instead of copying and mimicking the requests library API, the low level HTTP adapter is changed with a custom crafted one, and everything else is exactly the same (even the exceptions are mapped).

With a single switch you can enable/disable curl for your requests, without needing to worry about changing the way you normally work with requests.

Though, if you're looking for async support or websockets, you should definitely checkout the curl_cffi instead, since by default, the requests library is only sync.

You can also use curl-adapter with pycurl.

Additionally, this module is optimized for seamless integration with Gevent.

Installation

pip install curl-adapter --upgrade --ignore-installed

Usage

Basic example:

import requests
from curl_adapter import CurlCffiAdapter

session = requests.Session()
session.mount("http://", CurlCffiAdapter())
session.mount("https://", CurlCffiAdapter())

# just use requests session like you normally would
session.get("https://example.com")

Configuring curl impersonate options:

import requests
from curl_adapter import CurlCffiAdapter

curl_cffi_adapter = CurlCffiAdapter(
    # This is the default
    impersonate_browser_type="chrome", 

    # Optionally set additional options
    tls_configuration_options={
        "ja3_str": "...",
        "akamai_str": "...",
        "extra_fp": ExtraFingerprints(...),
    }
)

# you can use 'with ...' for just making a single request
with requests.Session() as s:
    s.mount("http://", curl_cffi_adapter)
    s.mount("https://", curl_cffi_adapter)

    s.get("https://example.com")

Using it with pycurl:

import requests
from curl_adapter import PyCurlAdapter

with requests.Session() as s:
    s.mount("http://", PyCurlAdapter())
    s.mount("https://", PyCurlAdapter())

    s.get("https://example.com")

More

You can get extra information from the curl response info:

import requests
from curl_adapter import PyCurlAdapter, CurlInfo

with requests.Session() as s:
    s.mount("http://", PyCurlAdapter())
    s.mount("https://", PyCurlAdapter())

    response = s.get("https://example.com")

    body = response.text

    curl_info: CurlInfo = response.curl_info

    print(
        curl_info
    )

Returns a simple dict:

{
    'local_ip':'192.168.1.1',
    'local_port':19219,
    'primary_ip':'142.250.200.142',
    'primary_port':443,
    'request_size':0,
    'request_body_size':0,
    'response_header_size':418,
    'ssl_verify_result':0,
    'proxy_ssl_verify_result':0,
    'starttransfer_time':171335,
    'connect_time':33231,
    'appconnect_time':47274,
    'pretransfer_time':47378,
    'namelookup_time':1025,
    'has_used_proxy':0,
    'speed_download':52081115, # only available after the body has been read
    'speed_upload':0, # only available after the body has been read
    'response_body_size':519958376, # only available after the body has been read
    'total_time':9983626, # only available after the body has been read
}

Note that some cURL information fields are only availabe after the body stream has been fully consumed, so keep that in mind when using stream=True option.