From 74665221c02a8f2953221b5b98af341573714067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lolcat <will@lolcat.ca>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:47:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] detect brave rangebans

---
 scraper/brave.php | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scraper/brave.php b/scraper/brave.php
index 2efaefb..765b2dd 100644
--- a/scraper/brave.php
+++ b/scraper/brave.php
@@ -1873,6 +1873,11 @@ class brave{
 		
 		if(count($title) === 0){
 			
+			if(strtolower($this->fuckhtml->getloadedhtml()) == "this service is not available in your region"){
+				
+				throw new Exception("Brave rangebanned the IP range");
+			}
+			
 			throw new Exception("Brave returned a malformed page");
 		}