# Bypass Captcha

You can enable **Stealth Mode** to bypass Cloudflare or other bot protection systems. Simply set **`stealth_mode=true`** in your request parameters to activate it. Each request in Stealth Mode costs **`10 credits`**.

### API Example

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape?api_key=5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86&url=http://httpbin.org/ip&stealth_mode=true"
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape"

params = {
    "api_key": "5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86",
    "url": "http://httpbin.org/ip",
    "stealth_mode": "true"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)

print(response.text)

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Nodejs" %}

```javascript
import axios from "axios";

const url = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape";

const params = {
  api_key: "5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86",
  url: "http://httpbin.org/ip",
  stealth_mode: "true",
};

axios
  .get(url, { params })
  .then((response) => {
    console.log(response.data);
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error("Error:", error.message);
  });

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php
$url = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape?api_key=5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86&url=http://httpbin.org/ip&stealth_mode=true";

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    echo $response;
}

curl_close($ch);
?>

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

uri = URI("https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape")
params = {
  api_key: "5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86",
  url: "http://httpbin.org/ip",
  stealth_mode: "true"
}
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

response = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)

if response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
  puts response.body
else
  puts "Error: #{response.code} - #{response.message}"
end

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public class ScrapingdogExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            String urlString = "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape"
                    + "?api_key=5e3a0e5a97e5b1ca5b194f42da86"
                    + "&url=http://httpbin.org/ip"
                    + "&stealth_mode=true";

            URL url = new URL(urlString);
            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

            conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
            conn.setConnectTimeout(10000); // 10 seconds
            conn.setReadTimeout(10000);

            int responseCode = conn.getResponseCode();
            System.out.println("Response Code: " + responseCode);

            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
            String inputLine;
            StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();

            while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(inputLine);
            }

            in.close();
            conn.disconnect();

            System.out.println("Response: " + response.toString());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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