curl-impersonate
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Nov 8, 2025first mention
Oct 18, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“For me, curl-impersonate [0] works great.”
“There are projects that do this already e.g. https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate”
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“I like curl-impersonate[0] as a quick way to make curl fingerprint as chrome or firefox.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests 1 mention
- Fingerprints are the new cookies 1 mention
- Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints 1 mention
- The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting 1 mention
- Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142 1 mention
Data: curl-impersonate.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“For me, curl-impersonate [0] works great.”
“There are projects that do this already e.g. https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate”
“I like curl-impersonate[0] as a quick way to make curl fingerprint as chrome or firefox.”
“spoofing it is table stakes for bad actors.”
“There are a number of projects like curl-impersonate[1] and the like, but these are rarely updated any more.”