IP got blocked!

[lamyergeier]

Any suggestions if it's possible to unblock the IP?

[PhilK-7]

The same happened to me at some point. Are you by any chance using a VPN? If so, you could switch to another IP. If not, try another method e.g. a proxy. The website defense measures have gotten more aggressive in recent time

[Bastilla123]

This has nothing to do with IP Address. I can with same credentials and on same device with same IP Login with Firefox and not with Google Chrome. I have feeling, that header is another. I try same with selenium firefox driver...

Can someone confirm that Google Chrome is blocked but Firefox works?

[Bastilla123]

This is very strange when i use this bot i get everytime my IP are blocked when i manual login then i can login.... i solve captcha with bot everytime manual... so selenium makes it another then i am make manual ... strange

[lamyergeier]

This is what happens to me: when i use the bot it says that my ip is blocked but i can log in manually!

[Lennix]

It may be due to sec-ch-ua header not being set by chromium and thats checked by the firewall. I changed the user-agent to firefox and its working for me now.

- --user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0 Add this under browser.arguments in the config.yaml

[lamyergeier]

@Lennix I am using Ubuntu 22.10.; Firefox version 108.0.2

From [What Is My User Agent? - WhatIsMyIP.com®](https://www.whatismyip.com/user-agent/), I found my User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0

So I did as you did in your config file, but I get following error

[INFO] Logging to [/home/lamy/Documents/Mobile/Data/Task/Todo/Sales/kleinanzeigen-bot.log]...
[INFO] App version: 0.1.dev1+geca782c
[INFO] Loading config from [/home/lamy/opt/Kleinanzeigen/config.yaml]...
[INFO]  -> found 138 categories
[INFO] Searching for ad config files...
[INFO]  -> found 2 ad config files
[INFO] Loading ad from [/home/lamy/Desktop/Task/Todo/Sales/Keyboard/ad_Keyboard.yaml]...
[INFO] Loading ad from [/home/lamy/Desktop/Task/Todo/Sales/Macbook/ad_Laptop.yaml]...
[INFO] Loaded 2 ads
[INFO] Creating WebDriver session...
[INFO] Using Browser: CHROMIUM 109.0.5414 [/snap/bin/chromium]
[INFO]  -> Custom chrome argument: --user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0
[INFO]  -> Custom chrome argument: --disable-dev-shm-usage
[INFO]  -> Custom chrome argument: --no-sandbox
[INFO]  -> Chrome binary location: /snap/bin/chromium
[ERROR] WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited normally.
  (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
  (The process started from chrome location /snap/bin/chromium is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Stacktrace:
#0 0x55908c299303 <unknown>
#1 0x55908c06dd37 <unknown>
#2 0x55908c096157 <unknown>
#3 0x55908c092330 <unknown>
#4 0x55908c0d34a6 <unknown>
#5 0x55908c0ca753 <unknown>
#6 0x55908c09da14 <unknown>
#7 0x55908c09eb7e <unknown>
#8 0x55908c2e832e <unknown>
#9 0x55908c2ebc0e <unknown>
#10 0x55908c2ce610 <unknown>
#11 0x55908c2ecc23 <unknown>
#12 0x55908c2c0545 <unknown>
#13 0x55908c30d6a8 <unknown>
#14 0x55908c30d836 <unknown>
#15 0x55908c328d13 <unknown>
#16 0x7f3660490402 <unknown>

[369781] Failed to execute script '__main__' due to unhandled exception!

[van-shorty]

define in the config file: user_data_dir: "" # see https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/main/docs/user_data_dir.md profile_name: "" --> normaly default

then chrome opens with the default profile as you use when starting chrome from windows, then everything works. the problem is, that every time you start the tool chrome create a new session profile and then the same ip sends multiple session requests to ebay kleinanzeigen and that will be blocked.

[lamyergeier]

In the IP range 2001:a61:3a3a:2602:9e3e:4e47:3bd2:a062 there have recently been several unsafe attempts to use our platform.

This may also have been attempted by other people. Therefore, to prevent fraud, this IP range has been temporarily excluded from the use of eBay classifieds. Please just try again later.

More information: IP range blocked on eBay classifieds

Ref#: 0.8ba02417.1677842740.7c2888b2 IP#: 2001:a61:3a3a:2602:9e3e:4e47:3bd2:a062

[jeromewh]

I'm experiencing the same error. The suggested workarounds by @van-shorty and @Lennix did not work. Is there any information I can provide?

[van-shorty]

did you define this in your config?

binary_location: C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

[jeromewh]

Weird... I tried it again (I just uncommented the lines from my previous tries) and now it works

Here is my current configuration:

browser:
  arguments:
    - --disable-dev-shm-usage
    - --no-sandbox
    - --user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0
  binary_location: 'C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe'
  extensions: []
  use_private_window: true
  user_data_dir: 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data'
  profile_name: "Default"

I'll post again if get any more errors.

[Nuc1eoN]

I got blocked after just a few tries, even though I was using --user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:108.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/108.0 as suggested.

Maybe the sleep times between request should be randomized so it looks more organic?

[Nuc1eoN]

Interesting. I have published an ad with kleinanzeigen-bot, and the ad got retroactively deleted, without notice. Only about one hour after publishing.

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