[GH-ISSUE #603] [WhoScored] Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access whoscored.com | Cloudflare #113

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opened 2026-03-02 15:55:53 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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2026-03-02 15:55:53 +03:00

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Originally created by @pranavm28 on GitHub (Jun 5, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/probberechts/soccerdata/issues/603

Getting blocked by WhoScored from scraping data. Was working fine less than 24 hrs ago. Issue came up for the first time like 14 hrs ago.

Any possible fix to this? Thanks!

Originally created by @pranavm28 on GitHub (Jun 5, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/probberechts/soccerdata/issues/603 Getting blocked by WhoScored from scraping data. Was working fine less than 24 hrs ago. Issue came up for the first time like 14 hrs ago. Any possible fix to this? Thanks!

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2026-03-02 15:55:53 +03:00

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@probberechts commented on GitHub (Jun 14, 2024):

The scraper still seems to work fine for me. However, WhoScored has some very strong protection against scraping. Likely, you will eventually get blocked if you scrape large amounts of data in a short amount of time. To avoid this, you can use a proxy server as explained in the docs. Note that using tor won't work well though for WhoScored. It is easily detected.

@probberechts commented on GitHub (Jun 14, 2024): The scraper still seems to work fine for me. However, WhoScored has some very strong protection against scraping. Likely, you will eventually get blocked if you scrape large amounts of data in a short amount of time. To avoid this, you can use a proxy server as [explained in the docs](https://soccerdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/whoscored.html). Note that using tor won't work well though for WhoScored. It is easily detected.

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2026-03-02 15:57:15 +03:00

[PR #113] [MERGED] Update dependency flake8 to v6 #291