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Challenge Development

Infinite scroll for getting group members in Linkedin

Recently i was challenged with getting Linkedin group memebers info. The challenge made me to seek some ways to

Here is a video where I try to catch all Linkedin group members through endless scroll**, I having to be a member of the group.
The real speed is ~1 person/second though.

Sometimes you need to click on the “Scroll more results” button or even just hover the mouse over this button.

Automate scroll

**The post on how to start infinite scrol in the browser… But this JS code from the post does not help to replenish the page… Only when there is a focus on the browser tab/page, the script continues loading data again.

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Review

A Comprehensive Examination of NetNut Proxy Services

When traversing the digital landscape for high-quality proxy services, the name NetNut often emerges as a frontrunner. This review aims to delve into the facets of NetNut’s offerings, emphasizing the distinctive aspects that set it apart in an intensely competitive environment. 

An Introduction to NetNut

In the world of proxies, NetNut.io has built a reputation for speed, reliability, and robustness. Leveraging its partnership with a major US data carrier, NetNut offers a residential proxy network that is both unique and high-performing. The company’s network is expansive, with a coverage that spans millions of IPs globally, presenting an impressive degree of scalability.

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Development

Static Residential Proxies

We’ve alsredy spoke of Rotating Residential Proxies but now I want to share SmartProxy‘s new Static Residential Proxies.

Static Residential Proxies do not rotate randomly but rather on-demand. They are good for web scraping to make a spider maintain its session at single website. And this session memory might last for life.

How are they different from dynamic/rotating residential proxies?

  • Greater stability
  • Faster speed
  • Website sessions keeping
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Challenge Development

Node.js & Privacy Pass application for Cloudflare scrape solution

Over 7.59 million of websites use Cloudflare protection, 26% of
them are among the top 100K website worldwide. As Cloudflare
establishes 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 of
protections were always the main obstacle in providing reliable data collection solutions. And most often this would lead to consider bypass services which aren’t always free.

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Development

MobaXterm, better Putty alternative

MobaXterm is a server connectivity software (Windows) and it’s much better than Putty. It’s branded as “Enhanced terminal for Windows with X11 server, tabbed SSH client, network tools and much more”.

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Github AI pair programmer

GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer

The copilot is integratable into 4 major IDEs

Visual Studio Visual Studio Neovim Neovim VS Code VS Code JetBrains IDEs JetBrains IDEs
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Challenge Development

Undetected ChromeDriver in Python Selenium

Selenium comes with a default WebDriver that often fails to bypass scraping anti-bots. Yet you can complement it with Undetected ChromeDriver, a third-party WebDriver tool that will do a better job.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Undetected ChromeDriver with Selenium in Python and solve the most common errors.

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Challenge Development

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 job without interrupting the user experience.

But don’t fall into despair! There are a couple of things you can try to bypass PerimeterX (called HUMAN now) before giving up on your goal of scraping that delicious data.

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Challenge Development

Python, Selenium for custom browser automation scraper

Recently we’ve got the tricky website, its data being of dynamic nature. Yet we’ve applied the modern day scraping tools to fetch data. We’ve develop an effective Python scraper using Selenium library for browser automation.

About the project

We were asked to have a look at a retailer website.

And our task was to gather data on 210 products’ availability in 945 shops. The scrape resulted in about 200K data entries in a CSV format. Moreover, every line contained information about name, link, brand, store and the availability of a product. Below you can familiarise yourself with a small data sample we were able to gather.

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Challenge Development

Discord Bot to detect on-site anti-scrape & scrape-proof tools

Today, I’ll share of a Dicord server 1 and server 2 that accomodate a bot able to detect multiple modern scrape-protection and scrape-detection means. The server’s channels with the bot are #antibot-test and #antibot-scan respectively