This is a light web application that attempts to bypass paywalls by pretending to be a Google Bot. It uses the cached up version of websites that search engine crawlers are permitted to access.

It doesn't work with every paywall, but you might get lucky ;).

This was made as a short research into paywalls. I am not responsible for how it's used.

Python is required for this application to run and needs to be installed and a guide on how to do so can be found here.

Flask is required as well and can (usually) be installed with:

pip install flask or python -m pip install flask,

• Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/taha-sh/VTFlaskScan.git
cd VTFlaskScan

• Install Flask if you haven't already: pip install flask

• Setup the Flask environment:

For UNIX-systems (Linux, MacOS):

export FLASK_APP=app.py
export FLASK_ENV=development

For Windows users:

set FLASK_APP=app.py
set FLASK_ENV=development

• Run the application:

flask run

The server should start, typically on http://127.0.0.1:5000/.