autoreg-skills-max/skills/account-validation/references/flaresolverr-discourse.md

FlareSolverr HTML Wrapper Pattern

When using FlareSolverr to bypass Cloudflare on Discourse forums (linux.do, etc.), the API response JSON is wrapped in HTML <pre> tags:

FlareSolverr response:
{
  "status": "ok",
  "solution": {
    "response": "<html><head>...</head><body><pre>{...actual JSON...}</pre></body></html>"
  }
}

Fix: Extract JSON from <pre> before parsing:

resp = data["solution"]["response"]
if "<pre>" in resp and "</pre>" in resp:
    resp = resp.split("<pre>")[1].split("</pre>")[0]
data = json.loads(resp)  # Now works

Working FlareSolverr endpoints (on DO server [REDACTED-IP]):

• http://localhost:8191/v1 — FlareSolverr API
• POST with {"cmd": "request.get", "url": "...", "maxTimeout": 30000}

Known targets:

Site	CF?	FlareSolverr?
linux.do	Yes	✅ Works
nodeloc.com	No	Not needed
Reddit	Yes	❌ Blocked
dc.hhhl.cc	No	Not needed