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.
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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 […]
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Chromium Command Line switches
When we use Selenium or Node.js + Puppeteer to run [headless] Chrome/Chromium we might need to add some extra functionality/conditions to launch browsers with. Below you’ll find all kinds of Conditions and their explanations. How to use command line switches? The Chromium Team has made a page on which they briefly explain how to use these switches.
In this post we want to share with you a new useful JAVA library that helps to crawl and scrape Linkedin companies. Get business directories scraped! If you are considering the Linkedin data scrape legal issues, please refer to the following post: Linkedin lost in court to data analytic company that scrapes Linkedin’s public profiles […]
The JS loading page is usually scraped by Selenium or another browser emulator. Yet, for a certain shopping website we’ve found a way to perform a pure Python requests scrape.
Recently, I was challenged to do bulk submits through an authenticated form. The website required a login. While there are plenty of examples of how to use POST and GET in Python, I want to share with you how I handled the session along with a cookie and authenticity token (CSRF-like protection). In the post, […]
In this blog post we are going to show how you can solve [Re]captcha with Java and some third party APIs, and why you should probably avoid them in the first place. For the Python code (+ captcha API) see that post. The post author is Kevin Sahin from ScrapingNinja.co. Captcha solving “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and […]
Recently I’ve got a question: How do I get pass the dynamic “load more” button using a Python web scraper?
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Selenium using proxy gateway, how?
I develop a web scraping project using Selenium. Since I need rotating proxies [in mass quantities] to be utilized in the project, I’ve turned to the proxy gateways (nohodo.com, charityengine.com and some others). The problem is how to incorporate those proxy gateways into Selenium for surfing web?