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FlareSolverr
ACTIVE
FlareSolverr is a Python project catalogued in section 02 of this register. Proxy server that solves Cloudflare's interstitial challenges and hands back the cookies. It reads ACTIVE at the last field check — its most recent push was 4 weeks before that check, inside the 90-day threshold the rubric in force prints.
https://github.com/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr
The fields this state was derived from
| Field | Value at this printing |
|---|---|
| pushed_at | 2026-07-16 |
| archived | false |
| latest_release | — |
| license.spdx_id | MIT |
| stargazers_count | 15200 |
| http_status | 200 |
| fetched_at | 2026-08-14T09:12:00Z |
| endpoint | GET https://api.github.com/repos/FlareSolverr/FlareSolverr |
| rubric_edition | 2nd, in force since 2026-08-14 |
A live read does not change what is printed above it. The site records that you ran it; what GitHub returned is not kept. The printed state moves only when the register is swept and a new printing is issued. raw JSON
Why it reads ACTIVE
pushed_at = 2026-07-16 — 29 days, within the 90-day ACTIVE threshold.
Shipping. Safe to build on today.
Under the superseded first edition
Unchanged: the first edition read ACTIVE from the same fields.
The rubric in force · The superseded first edition · Errata leaf
What FlareSolverr actually does
Runs as a proxy service: your scraper asks it for a URL, it drives a real browser through the interstitial challenge, and it returns the resulting cookies and page for you to reuse.
What FlareSolverr's maintenance signals mean
The liveness field here is pushed_at, read as 2026-07-16 against a field check 29 days later. That is inside 90 days, and 90 days is where the second edition of the rubric put ACTIVE after moving it down from the first edition's 180.
The reason for the move is worth stating, because it is the kind of threshold that looks arbitrary until you know what it is measuring against: detection changes on a shorter cycle than half a year, so a six-month-old evasion is not a current one. What a recent push does not tell you is what was in it. A commit landing on a branch is not a release, not a fix, and not a test — it is evidence that somebody is still there.
No release was captured for this entry, which this register records as unknown rather than as none. The distinction matters more than it looks: a project with no tags and a project whose tags the sweep failed to read produce the same blank cell, and printing them as the same fact would be the register asserting something it has not measured.
Where FlareSolverr sits in this catalogue
FlareSolverr is filed in section 02, automation stealth plugins, patches & cdp-leak fixes, whose scope is this: Patches and plugins for Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium, plus the proxies and cursor libraries that sit beside them. An entry sits in exactly one section here. Where a project could defensibly go in two, it is placed where a reader would look for it first rather than where it fits most tidily, and that is an editorial decision rather than a measured one.
Filed beside it in the same section: Selenium-Driverless (NRND), DrissionPage (ACTIVE), CloudflareBypassForScraping (ACTIVE). Comparing an entry against its own section-mates is more informative than comparing it against the catalogue as a whole, because everything in a section is answering roughly the same question and the differences left over are the ones that matter.
It is published under MIT, alongside the rest of the MIT entries in this register, and it sits with everything else currently marked ACTIVE. Read those two facets together: a permissively licensed project that stopped shipping is not a safer dependency than a copyleft one that did not, and a filter on one axis alone will tell you the wrong thing.
Substitutes for the same job, with no claim that either is better: CloudflareBypassForScraping. The alternative relation is symmetric and carries no ranking, because this register publishes no ranking of any kind. The full FlareSolverr comparison table sets all of them side by side on licence, push date, release cadence and state.
What to settle before you adopt FlareSolverr
The architecture means one long-lived browser process is doing work on behalf of many callers, so its resource profile and its failure modes are both concentrated. Check how it behaves when the challenge it expects changes shape.
See also
| Relation | Entry | State | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|
| alternative to | CloudflareBypassForScraping | ACTIVE | 2026-08-13 |
Questions readers ask about FlareSolverr
Answered from this entry's own fields, at the field check printed above and at no other instant.
Is FlareSolverr still maintained?
At the 2026-08-14 field check this register read pushed_at as 2026-07-16 and the archive flag as false, and the rubric in force turned those into ACTIVE. Shipping. Safe to build on today. The clause that fired is printed on this page, so you can check the arithmetic rather than take the word.
What are the alternatives to FlareSolverr?
CloudflareBypassForScraping are recorded as substitutes for the same job. The relation carries no ranking — this register publishes none — so read them side by side on the comparison table, which prints licence, last push, release cadence and state for each.
What licence is FlareSolverr under?
MIT, read from the repository's own licence metadata at the field check rather than from a README badge. Other MIT entries are grouped together, and the no-licence-declared group is worth a look before you assume any project here carries a grant.
Where does this status come from?
From one sweep, recorded with the instant it ran. The raw fields, the endpoint they were read from, the fetch timestamp and the rubric edition in force are all printed on this page, and the same row is in the CC0 data files in JSON and CSV. Recompute the state from those columns and this page must agree with you; where it does not, the register is wrong.
Everything in section 02 is a patch applied to somebody else's automation stack, which means every one of them inherits that stack's release cadence and breaks on its own schedule. Donut Browser starts from the other end: the fingerprint handling is in the browser it ships rather than in a layer bolted onto a driver, and the local REST API and MCP server mean automation talks to it directly instead of through a patched client library.
curl -fsSL https://donutbrowser.com/install.sh | sh
macOS (DMG, Homebrew cask donut), Windows (installer and portable), Linux (deb, rpm, AppImage, with APT and RPM repositories at repo.donutbrowser.com), and a Nix flake. Desktop only — there is no mobile build target. Ten shipped languages. Source, AGPL-3.0 · its own entry, judged by the same rubric · the keepers' disclosure.