Today, I’ll share of a Dicord server that accomodates a bot able to detect multiple modern scrape-protection and scrape-detection means. The server name is Scraping Enthusiasts, channel with the bot being #antibot-test
Author: Igor Savinkin
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Web Scraping: 5 pros and cons
Web scraping, also known as data mining or web harvesting, is the process of extracting data from websites automatically. The extracted data can be used for various purposes, such as market research, price monitoring, sentiment analysis, and many more. However, web scraping has both advantages and disadvantages. In this article, we will discuss the five main pros and cons of web scraping.
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TLS (SSL) Fingerprinting
In the post we share about web fingerprinting and particularly TLS fingerprinting. First let’s categorize the fingerprinting.
Today, I got in touch with the Node.js [and Python] bots garden/zoo providing modern bots with different kinds of browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Headless/not headless) using different automation frameworks (Puppeteer, Selenium, Playwright) in several programming languages.
With 365SMS service you can receive SMS to a virtual number and verify your accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Amazon, Airbnb, etc.
- Buying virtual numbers and receiving SMS in automatic mode.
- A virtual phone number is issued for 20 minutes. During this time, you can receive an unlimited number of SMS absolutely free.
- You pay only for the received SMS, prices are as low as 0.3 EUR per number. If the number did not accept SMS, the money will be returned to the balance.
- Large selection of services (incl. Linkedin) and countries for SMS activation.
- Convenient API for comfortable work with external software.
- User-friendly interface. Search by country and service makes it easy to buy a virtual phone number.
- Dicounts for numbers in bulk.
Note
Since the virtual number is not in the country it represents, so a created 3d party account might be blocked. Therefore it’s better to:
1. Use mobile proxies that match the geolocation of the region of the purchased virtual number;
2. Use a mobile user agent.
Often the problem is not in the number, but in the wrong registration method.
Free numbers
Another vistual number SMS service, incl. free numbers.
Recently I’ve encountred a client that predicts “in 6 month AI will be able to do much coding instead of man”.
…in years you’ll be able to on the fly, ask the AI to purchase a server, or create a website with X website builder… and basically, I bet it will write code on the fly on your demand where it connects to these tool’s APIs to really make things happen. It could do this now for some easy stuff but it’s unreliable and will mess up.
Now we’ve ancountered a interesing public repo, called Sketch. It’s AI code-writing assistant for Pandas (Python) users.
Scraping youtube comments has become crucial if you are working on some sentiment analysis project. The comments section will give you an overview of the public sentiment toward any election or sports results, scams, wars, etc. Comments reflect an overall feeling of a person. What according to them is right and wrong is mentioned in the comments.
The original AWSCodeStarFullAccess policy is full [to provide access to AWS CodeStar via the AWS Management Console] yet it still does not grant enough access to create a Code connection for IAM at CodePipeline. So we had to manage to create a custom policy based on AWS tutorial suggestions.
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.
| Residential | Cost/month | Traffic/month | $ per GB | Rotating | IP whitelisting | Performance and more | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxylabs.io |  | $ 300 | 25 GB | 9 - 12 "pay-as-you-go" - 15 | yes | yes | - 30K requests - 1.3 GB of data - 5K pages crawled | Not allowing to scrape some of grey zone targets, incl. Linkedin. |
| Rainproxy.io | yes | $ 4 | from 1 GB | 4 | yes | |||
| Infatica.io | | from $ 96 | from 10 GB | 3.5 - 12 | yes | yes | Over 95% success *Bans from Cloudflare are also few, less than 5%. | No "pay-as-you-go" plan |
| BrightData | yes | 15 | ||||||
| Charity Engine -docs | yes | - | - | starting from 3.6 Additionally: CPU computing - from $0.01 per avg CPU core-hour - from $0.10 per GPU-hour - source. | failed to connect so far | |||
| Smartproxy | yes | 8-10 "pay-as-you-go" - 12.5 | yes | Not allowing to scrape some of grey zone targets, incl. Linkedin. |
See more exensive and detailed comparison in here.