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web-fetch-cloudflare-circumvent

web-fetch-cloudflare-circumvent is a skill for Claude Code from press-pass/journalism-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (310 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-page fetcher that tries several methods when a site is protected by Cloudflare, a service that can block automated requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to retrieve content from a URL and extract information from the page, including sites that require a real browser to load.
Why use it?
It provides fallback methods when the first request is denied, returns an error, or receives a browser-check page.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the journalism-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

not rated 2repo 3mo ago A scan 26 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to retrieve content from a URL and extract information from the page, including sites that require a real browser to load.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/press-pass/journalism-skills/web-fetch-cloudflare-circumvent
View source ↗ press-pass/journalism-skills
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add press-pass/journalism-skills --skill web-fetch-cloudflare-circumvent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/press-pass/journalism-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install journalism-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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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.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 310 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.00310
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00155
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00031

Measured 11d ago against content hash fcb6a3125903, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

web-fetch-cloudflare-circumvent 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 11d 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.

description: Fetch web content that may be blocked by Cloudflare. Cascades through WebFetch, curl, and Playwright until one succeeds.
skills/web-fetch-cloudflare-circumvent/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

You will be given a URL and an optional prompt describing what to extract from the page.

Follow this cascade to fetch the content, stopping as soon as one method succeeds:

Step 1: Try WebFetch

Use the WebFetch tool with the provided URL and prompt. If it succeeds, return the result.

If WebFetch returns a 403, 503, or any error suggesting the request was blocked, proceed to Step 2.

Step 2: Try curl

Run curl -s <URL> via the Bash tool. Inspect the response:

  • If you get valid HTML content, process it according to the prompt and return the result.
  • If you get a 403, a Cloudflare challenge page (look for "Just a moment..." or "Checking your browser"), or an empty response, proceed to Step 3.

Step 3: Try Playwright

Use the Playwright MCP tools to load the page in a real browser:

  1. Call browser_navigate with the URL.
  2. Call browser_snapshot to capture the page content.
  3. Process the snapshot according to the prompt and return the result.

Output

After successfully fetching the content, apply the user's prompt to the content and return the result. If all three methods fail, report which methods were tried and what errors occurred.

URL and prompt: $ARGUMENTS

Changes

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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 33 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A fcb6a3125903

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web-fetch-cloudflare-circumvent is a skill published in the GitHub repository press-pass/journalism-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 310 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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