Paywall Bypass

Identify paywall types and generate bypass strategies for web scraping and content extraction. Covers 500+ news sites, major paywall providers (Piano, TinyPass, Poool, etc.), and extraction techniques (bot spoofing, AMP, JSON-LD, archive fetching).

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add Lunatic16/paywall-bypass-skill --skill paywall-bypass

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lunatic16/paywall-bypass-skill.git /tmp/paywall-bypass-skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/paywall-bypass-skill/. ~/.claude/skills/paywall-bypass

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Paywall Bypass Helper

Identify paywall provider types and generate bypass strategies for web scraping, content extraction, and research across 500+ news sites.

## Use this skill when

- The user asks to "bypass paywall", "extract article content", or "get full text" from a paywalled URL
- The user needs to scrape or research content from news sites with subscription walls
- The user asks what paywall technology a specific site uses
- The user needs to write scripts that handle paywalled content programmatically
- The user asks about cookie behavior that triggers or avoids paywalls

## Do not use this skill when

- The task involves cracking DRM, decrypting encrypted content, or circumventing hard encryption
- The user requests illegal access to credentials or personal data
- The target is a non-paywall access control (login-only portals, intranets)
- The user wants to distribute full paywalled content commercially

## How paywalls work

Paywalls generally work through one of these mechanisms:

1. **Metered paywalls** — track article views via cookies/localStorage; after N free articles, block access
2. **Hard paywalls** — content is loaded but hidden behind CSS/JS overlay; blocking the JS reveals text
3. **Server-side paywalls** — content is not sent to the browser; requires external fetching (archive, cache, bot UA)
4. **Hybrid paywalls** — combination of client-side blocking + server-side checks

## Paywall provider identification

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: paywall-bypass
Repository: Lunatic16/paywall-bypass-skill
Repo updated: 4 April 2026

FAQ

What does the Paywall Bypass skill do?

How do I install the Paywall Bypass skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add Lunatic16/paywall-bypass-skill --skill paywall-bypass. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Paywall Bypass popular?

It lives in Lunatic16/paywall-bypass-skill, which has 9 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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