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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 […]

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Scraping a Javascript-dependent website with puppeteer

Support us by purchasing the book (under $5) on this topic. In today’s web 2.0 many business websites utilize JavaScript to protect their content from web scraping or any other undesired bot visits. In this article we share with you the theory and practical fulfillment of how to scrape js-dependent/js-protected websites.

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Review

ScrapingBee, an API for web scraping

The web is becoming increasingly difficult to scrape. There are more and more websites using single page application frameworks like Vue.js / Angular.js / React.js and you need to use headless browsers to extract data from those websites. Using headless Chrome on your local computer is easy. But scaling to dozens of Chrome instances in […]

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Using Modern Tools such as Node.js, Puppeteer, Apify for Web Scraping (Xing scrape)

I want to share with you the practical implementation of modern scraping tools for scraping JS-rendered websites (pages loaded dynamically by JavaScript). You can read more about scraping JS rendered content  here.

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Development Guest posting

Web Scraping with Java and HtmlUnit

Web scraping or crawling is the act of fetching data from a third party website by downloading and parsing the HTML code to extract the data you want. It can be done manually, but generally this term refers to the automated process of downloading the HTML content of a page, parsing/extracting the data, and saving […]

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Review

Sequentum Cloud Review

In the evolving world of data and data-driven economies, modern data gathering tools and services are crucial. So, in this post we’ll review Sequentum Cloud, the cloud-based web data scraping suite enabling non-tech users to gather custom web data. Sequentum Cloud is great for both for gathering business intelligence, such as monitoring competitors to drive […]

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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

Node.js, Python & Ruby Bots Zoo repo

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.

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Google Sheets or MS Excel to scrape business directories ?

We’ve already stated some Tips and Tricks of scraping business directories or data aggregators sites. Yet recently someone has asked us to do aggregators’ scraping in the context of Google Sheets and/or MS Excel.

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Development Guest posting

Scrape ‘Ticketmaster’ using Selenium with Python

We’ve got some code provided by Akash D. working on ticketmaster.co.uk. He automates browser (Chrome as well as Edge) using Selenium with Python. The rotating authenticated proxies are leveraged to keep undetected. Yet, the site is protected with Distil network.