Target

Target is the most complex site Refract supports: accounts, profiles, two kinds of cookies, and a harvester all working together against Shape, Target's anti-bot system. The guides below cover all of it. Read them in this order.

The guides

Building your setup (the beginner starter config, accounts, monitor, task fields, login, cookie rules). New users start here and run the starter configuration exactly as written:

Target Setup Guide

Running drops (how Shape works, recommended settings, rate limits, cancellations). Required reading before your first drop:

General Target Release Guide

Generating cookies, with either or both:

Extension (Shape Generation)In-Bot (Shape Generation)

The rules that never change

• Hype Product ON for every Shape-protected (high-demand) drop.

• Shape on a drop has an extremely low pass rate, for everyone. That is the nature of the site, not a broken setup.

• There is no one-size-fits-all fix for Shape blocks. Shape scores your whole setup together; what fixes one user's blocks does nothing for another's.

• About 3 cookies per running task, quality over quantity. Generating more raises your own flag risk.

• Target is not a game of scale. A clean 10-task, 10-account local setup beats a bloated one.

• Local beats servers. Mac is best for Shape, then local Windows. Avoid Windows servers.

• Accounts do not affect Shape blocks. Shape scores your device, browser, proxies, and cookie volume.

• Resis on tasks, and especially on harvesters. ISPs on the monitor. Resis use data, but they have been passing Shape much better.

• Multi-SKU over duplicated groups. Duplicating a group doubles the cookies you need.

• Defaults exist for a reason, across both the bot and the extension. Changing them is your call, but we have no better values to suggest; if we did, they would be the defaults.

• Everything known about Shape is in these guides. Tickets will not surface more.