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flaresolverr

Flaresolverr helps bypass Cloudflare challenges for scraping.

flaresolverr

Prepare

podman pull ghcr.io/flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest
mkdir -p $HOME/apps/{variables,container_data}
touch $HOME/apps/variables/flaresolverr.env
mkdir -p $HOME/apps/container_data/flaresolverr

Edit environment file

Edit the environment file and paste your default values for this service:

nano $HOME/apps/variables/flaresolverr.env

Example contents:

TZ=Europe/Athens
LOG_LEVEL=info
CAPTCHA_SOLVER=none

Installation

touch $HOME/.config/containers/systemd/flaresolverr.container

# flaresolverr.container
[Container]
ContainerName=flaresolverr
HostName=flaresolverr
AutoUpdate=registry
Image=ghcr.io/flaresolverr/flaresolverr:latest
Network=skynet.network

EnvironmentFile=%h/apps/variables/flaresolverr.env
Volume=%h/apps/container_data/flaresolverr:/config

[Service]
Restart=always
TimeoutStartSec=300

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Configuration of Nginx (Reverse Proxy)

Create nginx conf.

touch /$HOME/apps/container_data/nginx/flaresolverr.conf

Configuration for nginx conf for port 80.

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name flaresolver.skynet.lan;
  access_log /var/log/nginx/flaresolverr_access.log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/flaresolverr_error.log;
  location / {
    proxy_pass http://flaresolverr:8191;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  }
}

Restart Nginx

systemctl --user restart nginx

Usage

Open http://flaresolver.skynet.lan

Troubleshooting

podman logs -f flaresolverr
journalctl --user -u nginx -n 200