Recently I decided to work with pythonanywhere.com for running python scripts on JS stuffed websites. Originally I tried to leverage the dryscrape library, but I failed to do it, and a nice support explained to me: “…unfortunately dryscrape depends on WebKit, and WebKit doesn’t work with our virtualisation system.”
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Recently we’ve got a tricky website of dynamic content to scrape. The data are loaded thru XHRs into each part of the DOM (HTML markup). So, the task was to develop an effective scraper that does async while using reasonable CPU recourses.
In a previous post we’ve considered the ways to disguise an automated Chrome browser by spoofing some of its parameters – Headless Chrome detection and anti-detection. Here we’ll share the practical results of Fingerprints testing against a benchmark for both human-operated and automated Chrome browsers.
In the post we summarize how to detect the headless Chrome browser and how to bypass the detection. The headless browser testing should be a very important part of todays web 2.0. If we look at some of the site’s JS, we find them to checking on many fields of a browser. They are similar […]
In this post we share with you how to perform web scraping of a JS-rendered website. The tools as seen in the header are JAVA with Selenium library driving headless Chrome instances (download driver) and JSoup as parser to fetch data of the acquired HTML.
Some of you may be wondering if it’s possible to extract a web browser’s local storage by web scraping?
I have already written several articles on how to use Selenium WebDriver for web scraping and all those examples were for Windows. But what about if you want to run your WebDriver-based scraper somewhere on a headless Linux server? For example on a Virtual Private Server with SSH-only access. Here I will show you how […]
The rise of artificial intelligence has transformed various industries, and web scraping is no exception. AI enhances web scraping by increasing efficiency, accuracy, and adaptability in data extraction processes. As businesses increasingly rely on data to drive their decisions, understanding how AI-powered techniques can optimize these scraping efforts becomes crucial for success. Our exploration of […]
Over 7.59 million of websites use Cloudflare protection, 26% ofthem are among the top 100K website worldwide. As Cloudflareestablishes itself as the norm regarding service protection, chances are, the site you want to scrape is more likely to use it than not. When it comes to scrapping websites, captchas and other type ofprotections were always […]
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How to bypass PerimeterX
You’ve found the website you need to scrape, set up your scraper and fired it, just to sadly realize PerimeterX has blocked you. PerimeterX’s dynamically complex bot detection system relies on server-side and client-side checks to distinguish humans from bots. It deploys several layers of protection and, for the most part, manages to do its […]