Recently we have encountered the web scrape detection issues in some of our projects. So as we’ve consulted with the Sequentum developers we present to you some points on this topic. Here are a few lines about web scraping detection and how Visual Web Ripper can help deal with this problem.
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TEST DRIVE: AJAX
The new Web Scraper Testing Drive Stage is on, the AJAX upload. Here we’ll check if the scrapers are able to extract the AJAX supplied data. This is simply not an easy task for the scraper software.
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TEST DRIVE: Login Form
We now launch the new Web Scraper Test Drive stage with the Login Form Test. The test is to check if the web scrapers are able to pass a login before they touch actual data for scrape. Both form submission via POST, HTTP 302 Redirect outwork and cookie storing performance will be checked for each scraper.
Since we’ve reviewed the Web Scraper Shortcode, we consider now some issues with this Word Press plugin. It is the Word Press plugin for extracting a web page or a part of it and inserting it into a custom Word Press driven page.
The HTTP Scoop sniffer by Tuffcode is a Mac OS web sniffer doing multiple HTTP watches. This tools stands in a row of other HTTP protocol sniffing tools.
This post is on the distinctions between specific web sniffers: those of induction nature, and those of condenser or proxy nature.
The Charlesproxy website sniffer is the subject of this post. This sniffing/monitoring application works with Windows, Mac and Linux OS. It rather differs from other web traffic sniffing tools.
WireShark is an all-inclusive network protocol analyzer. It works to display all the protocol layers including application layer protocols (HTTP and SSL). Though it is well able to capture a multitude of protocols, we focus on the HTTP, which is vital to Web Scraping. Other traffic analyzers are reviewed here.
