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Getting precise and localized data is becoming difficult. Advanced proxy networks are the only thing that is keeping some companies running intense data gathering operations.
Residential proxies are in extremely high demand, and there are only a few networks available that can offer millions of IP addresses around the world.
Smartproxy is one of those networks, rapidly growing to offer the best product in residential and data center proxies.
Anything free always sounds appealing. And we are often ready to go an extra mile to avoid expenses if we can. But is it a good idea to choose the free option when it comes to using proxies for data scraping? Or should you stick to the paid ones for better results?
Let’s weigh all the pros and cons to see why you should consider using residential IP providers like Infatica, Bright Data, NetNut, Geosurf and others.
Web Data Extraction is critical to the online operations of companies across the globe. With more data being scraped daily, websites implement techniques to block extraction efforts.
For some of our readers from Russia, it’s a new challenge to get to www.linkedin.com, which has been officially blocked in Russia.
On 4 August 2016, a Moscow court ruled that Linkedin must be blocked in Russia because it stores the user data of Russian citizens outside of the country, in violation of the new data retention law. The law requires all companies doing business in the country to store their users’ data locally.
In this post I’d like to share my experience with scraping data aggregator/business directory using the residential proxy of the Bright Data proxy provider in conjuction with its proxy manager.
Today we want to share with you about SquidProxies. It is a service offering anonymous HTTP/HTTPS proxies.
SquidProxies offers 2 types of data-center proxy packages, private proxies and shared proxies. The proxies are designated for just about any legal use, and work great to surf to every website. The proxies’ main use are web scraping/web crawling and SEO tools.
I want to test a proxy [gateway] service. What would be the simplest script to check the proxy’s IP speed and performance? See the following script.
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?
Today I needed to enable a Charles proxy on my Windows PC. Later I have managed the Genymotion virtual device to be monitored by the Charles proxy.
We’ve already written about suitable proxy servers for web scraping. Now we want to focus our readers on those for the huge/mass quantities data records scrape, particulary from the business directories. When scraping business directories, their web servers can identify repetitive requesting and put you on hold by looking at the IP address that is used for frequent http requests. Proxy rotation web service is the means for repeatedly changing IP address. Thus, target web server can only see the random IP addresses from rotating proxies pool at each request.