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Review

Software for Web Scraping

There are many web data extraction applications and some cloud services available and they vary widely in cost and features. Here weíve summarized them to help you to make your choice. All of these programs and services have been either tested by us or have been in general use for web ripping. We hope these brief overviews and the following reviews will help you to choose a best web scraper for your purposes.

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Development

Bypass Distil

The Distil scrape protection is a prominent one in the modern anti-scrape techniques. So, now we want to share with you some tips of how to bypass it. If you are interested, please make an inquiry to the following email: igor[dot]savinkin[at]gmail[dot]com


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Uncategorized

How to scrape Yellow Pages with ScreenScraper Chrome Extension

Recently I was asked to help with the job of scraping company information from the Yellow Pages website using the ScreenScraper Chrome Extension. After working with this simple scraper, I decided to create a tutorial on how to use this Google Chrome Extension for scraping pages similar to this one. Hopefully, it will be useful to many of you.

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Development

Scraping JavaScript protected content

Here we come to one new milestone: the JavaScript-driven or JS-rendered websites scrape.

Recently a friend of mine got stumped as he was trying to get content of a website using PHP simplehtmldom library. He was failing to do it and finally found out the site was being saturated with JavaScript code. The anti-scrape JavaScript insertions do a tricky check to see if the page is requested and processed by a real browser and only if that is true, will it render the rest of page’s HTML code.

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Review SaaS

Dexi.io review

Dexi.io is a powerful scraping suite (SaaS). This cloud scraping service provides development, hosting and scheduling tools. The suite might be compared with Mozenda for making web scraping projects and running them in clouds for user convenience. Yet it includes the API, each scraper being a JSON definition similar to other services like Import.io and ParseHub.

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Development Miscellaneous

Cookie browser-server workflow

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Development SaaS

Dexi Pipes: multi-threaded web scraping of site aggregators

dexi-pipes-logoToday I want to share my experience with Dexi Pipes. Pipes is a new kind of robot introduced by Dexi.io to integrate web data extraction and web data processing into a single seamless workflow. The main focus of the testing is to show how Dexi might leverage multi-threaded jobs for extraction of data from a retail website.
NB Pipes robots are available starting from PROFESSIONAL plans.

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Development

A Simple Email Crawler in Python

I often receive requests asking about email crawling. It is evident that this topic is quite interesting for those who want to scrape contact information from the web (like direct marketers), and previously we have already mentioned GSA Email Spider as an off-the-shelf solution for email crawling. In this article I want to demonstrate how easy it is to build a simple email crawler in Python. This crawler is simple, but you can learn many things from this example (especially if you’re new to scraping in Python).

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Review

Test ReCaptcha 2.0 solving services

We’ve tested several captcha solving services. The test results are based on 1000 ReCaptchas 2.0 submitted to each service.

Stars Avg.
solving time,
seconds
Fastest
solving time,
seconds
Performance,
%
Notes
DeathByCaptcha
41 16 96,8 Dec. 2019
2Captcha
63 15 95,2 Dec. 2019
CaptchaSolutions
111 37 78 Oct. 2017
Useful testing codes

2Captcha Test Code (JAVA)

CaptchaSolutions Test Code (Python)

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Challenge

Is there any way to skip CAPTCHA?

JavaScript powered CAPTCHA

Most of the answers to the question in internet forums are given by services that automatically solve captchas. They provide services to solve CAPTCHA rather than to fully skip it.