I have already written several articles on how to use WebDriver for web scraping, but I have never touched on the topic of changing WebDriver’s IP address. Nevertheless, this topic is quite crucial when you come to web scraping, and here I’d like to show you an example of using proxies with WebDriver in Python (and you can easily convert it into your language API).
What is Cassandra Database?
Apache Cassandra is a data management system designed and developed to handle huge amounts of data across multiple servers. It is open source, meaning its source code is freely available for anyone to study, modify and use.
What is MongoDB?
MongoDB, an open-source document database written in C++, is classified as a NoSQL database. Because it avoids the traditional table-based relational database structure in favor of JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (MongoDB calls the format BSON), it facilitates quick-and-easy data integration in various applications.
What is NoSQL?
The term “database” was long synonymous with SQL, and for a while there seemed to be no viable alternative. Recently, however, the realm of data storage has welcomed a new option: NoSQL. This article offers you a brief overview of what NoSQL is and when it may be applied.
MongoDB in a minute
In this article I’d love to revise few well-known methods of protecting website content from automatic scraping. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages, so you need to make your choice basing on the particular situation. None of these methods is ultimate and each one has its own ways around I will mention further.
In this article I’d love to revise few well-known methods of protecting website content from automatic scraping. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages, so you need to make your choice basing on the particular situation. None of these methods is ultimate and each one has its own ways around I will mention further.
Free Online JSON Visual Editor
JSONMate is yet another free online JSON visual editor with a modern appearance that allows users to edit, query, and visualize data in JSON format (in case you don’t know, JSON is a human-readable language that is usually used to communicate data between an online web application and a server). Let’s see what is unique about JSONMate.
Competitor Analysis
As strange as it may sound, competitor analysis is a significant part of the marketing process. Any company that hopes to become successful one day needs to look at the way competing businesses handle themselves. A competitive analysis is a document designed to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of other companies in an industry. A technical writer with marketing intelligence can create a strong analysis that allows a business to make good decisions.
It’s very common to use proxy servers for web data extraction. If you want to stay undetected when you scrape a website, you have to change your IP address periodically. Otherwise it is very easy to detect unusual activity by observing a large number of requests from a single IP address. Visual Web Ripper has a built-in support of proxy servers called Private Proxy Switch.