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
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- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/taha-sh/VTFlaskScan.git
cd VTFlaskScan
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Install Flask if you haven't already:
pip install flask
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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/.