Kasada: Wanted a parka and got an "Error 429: Too many requests"

In this post of The Web Scraping Club, we’ll see why some websites when we load them for the first time, throw a 429 error before starting to work.

TLDR versions: It’s because of Kasada's anti-bot solution.

So you want to buy a parka?

Let's say you're looking for a nice parka for the coming winter season, you go to your preferred e-commerce and from the developer tools, inside the network tab, you see a red line when loading the home page: error 429, too many requests. Kinda strange isn't it?

Looking for a Parka, got a 429 error.
Looking for a Parka, got a 429 error.

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