curl-impersonate
Shares rank 4 of 5 HTTP clients by recommenders
Recommended as a quick way to make curl fingerprint like Chrome or Firefox, and to hit captchas less often. Caveat: rarely updated anymore.
Recommended as a quick way to make curl fingerprint like Chrome or Firefox, and to hit captchas less often. Caveat: rarely updated anymore.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Makes curl fingerprint like Chrome
“I like curl-impersonate[0] as a quick way to make curl fingerprint as chrome or firefox.”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints” “It makes curl fingerprint identically to Chrome/Firefox.”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests” Try when plain curl fails
“try curl-impersonate if plain curl doesn't work”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account” Fewer captcha blocks than curl
“curl-impersonate is more useful than what they offer, at least it won't be stuck on captchas as often.”
Comment from 6 Dec 2025 in “Why we built Lightpanda in Zig”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Rarely updated any more
“these are rarely updated any more”
Comment from 9 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: I built an HTTP client that perfectly mimics Chrome 142”
Other HTTP clients people recommend
The four most recommended other HTTP clients, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| curl | 100 | 26 | 79% | 12 | — | Approved |
| wget | 19 | 1 | 95% | 10 | — | Approved |
| HTTPie | 7 | 1 | 88% | 6 | — | — |
| curl-impersonateThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
| lgogdownloader | 5 | 0 | 100% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It makes curl fingerprint identically to Chrome/Firefox.”
“try curl-impersonate if plain curl doesn't work”
“I like curl-impersonate[0] as a quick way to make curl fingerprint as chrome or firefox.”
“curl-impersonate is more useful than what they offer, at least it won't be stuck on captchas as often.”
“these are rarely updated any more”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.