Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add apify/awesome-skills --skill apify-blocked-scrape-triagegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apify/awesome-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/apify/awesome-skills/apify-blocked-scrape-triage)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/apify/awesome-skills/apify-blocked-scrape-triage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apify/awesome-skills/apify-blocked-scrape-triage/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/apify/awesome-skills/apify-blocked-scrape-triage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/apify/awesome-skills/apify-blocked-scrape-triage.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00216 | $0.11248 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00086 | $0.04499 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00043 | $0.02250 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00022 | $0.01125 |
Grade A, and why
apify-blocked-scrape-triage scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 28d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl -s "http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=query,country,as,org,hosting" How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 344 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Blocked scrape triage
A scrape came back wrong. Find out why before changing anything, then escalate in cost order. Most "blocks" are not bot detection, some are not even a live server, and the browser is the most expensive answer rather than the first one.
Work the steps in order. Step 0 ends more investigations than the whole ladder does.
Prerequisites
- Apify account (sign up)
- Authentication via one of:
apify login(OAuth, if using the Apify CLI)APIFY_TOKENenvironment variable- Token from Apify Console → Settings → Integrations
- A one-time permission approval, before the first diagnostic run.
apify/cheerio-scraperrequires full account access and refuses to start until that is approved in the Console. Both paths refuse, with different wording: MCPcall-actoranswersrequires full access to your account. You must approve its permissions before running it, while the CLI printsError: Actor apify/cheerio-scraper requires full access to your Apify account and has not been approved yet.on stdout with exit code 0 — so an unattended CLI flow reads it as a normal result and stops without saying why. Approve it once at the URL the message prints, before you need a diagnosis. The same applies toapify/web-scraperand the browser Actors in Rung 5;apify/website-content-crawlerdoes not require it.
What a diagnosis is allowed to cost
One DNS pair, one navigation per egress per host, then stop and conclude. The unit is the host, not the organisation: one county published its records across three hostnames that refused a request in three different ways, and a budget spent on "the target" would have bought one of those three answers. The budget counts requests to hosts the target owns; looking something up on a third-party platform, a data catalogue or your own IP check is free. If you are four requests into one host and still cannot name the cause, you are no longer diagnosing, you are probing, and you should say what you know and what it would cost to learn more. One navigation means one page: a browser pulling forty subresources for that page is still one navigation, and a burst of repeated probes is not. The one exception worth spending on is the residential probe in Step 3, a single run that separates "your network" from "actually defended".
What ships with it
4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 28d ago First seen · 344 lines · 216 tokens per session scan A 28e2085c5227
apify-blocked-scrape-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository apify/awesome-skills (280 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 216 tokens to every session and 11,248 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-22.
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