Recently I decided to work with pythonanywhere.com for running python scripts on JS stuffed websites. Originally I tried to leverage the dryscrape library, but I failed to do it, and a nice support explained to me: “…unfortunately dryscrape depends on WebKit, and WebKit doesn’t work with our virtualisation system.”
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We have already written some posts on CloudScrape, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based web scraping service startup. The service now has a new look and new features for data extraction and business intelligence – with the launch of new name: Dexi.io.
Some of you may be wondering if it’s possible to extract a web browser’s local storage by web scraping?
I’ve already written about how the new No CAPTCHA ReCaptcha works, and even had some success breaking it with an iMacros’ browser automation. But, the latest scraping tools are – for most part – driven by Python, so now I want to try the same experiment with Selenium + Python.
As anyone who has spent any time on the scraping field will know, there are plenty of anti-scraping techniques on the market. And since I regularly get asked what the best way to prevent someone from scraping a site, I thought Id do a post rounding up some of the most popular methods. If you […]
Recently I received a question in my mail box about scraping data aggregate sites (aka yellow pages) or business directories. I replied to him directly, but our conversation on business directories was an interesting one that I thought you guys would find useful. Here’s the question: I am interested in scraping the database in such a […]
LinkedIn API doesn’t allow you to publish into groups if you are not their administrator. That was done in order to eliminate spamming, but if you are a member of several groups of a similar topic and you want to share some interesting information with all of those groups, you have to do it manually […]
I have already written several articles on how to use Selenium WebDriver for web scraping and all those examples were for Windows. But what about if you want to run your WebDriver-based scraper somewhere on a headless Linux server? For example on a Virtual Private Server with SSH-only access. Here I will show you how […]
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An Example of Captcha Solver in Java
Recently I published an article on how to solve captcha in C# using DeathByCaptcha service, and I promised to offer you an example in other languages as well. In this post I’ll offer a Java project that does the same thing.
Let’s look at a practical example on how to solve CAPTCHAs using the DeathByCaptcha service. This example is written in C#, but you can get it in Java as well.