Cloudflare Blocking File Download the Photo by URL

Hey, everybody. I have the same problem as the author @CodeMonkey
(Profile - CodeMonkey - Make Community) of this topic -
Cloudflare Blocking File Download/Access

It’s just that I use other services. But the issue is the same. There is a module that passes the photo url to the HTTP Get file module, but the photo download is blocked by Cloudflare.

It looks like the author of the topic found a solution but did not share detailed step-by-step instructions that could be useful to other community members. Well, this is often the case.

Now I ask for help, maybe someone can tell me how to bypass this protection from bots? I understand that the author of the topic somehow passed his url through twilio’s api and that’s why he was not blocked. But how exactly did he do it? It is clear that he used the switch module, but how exactly is not clear.

I will be grateful for any help.

Hello @Miklos and welcome to the Make Community!

You probably just need to reach out to the service and use their official API instead, if they have one.

It’s not a good idea to ask for this kind of help here. Content providers put those protections in place for a reason.

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I need to save a photo from a Midjourney site that I generated myself. I have a paid plan so according to their terms and conditions this photo belongs to me. I just need to download them in bulk and not manually. That’s what automation is for.

As for the API, they don’t have it. And at the same time I do not want to download all my photos manually.

Looks like Midjourney doesn’t have an API for this and using browser automation would probably be the best way to go, but it would likely also violate their terms of service.