If you ever encountered a Captcha, you would know the sole purpose of it. This is a mechanism that a website resorts to in order to verify that you are a legitimate user and not a machine. And this is not a big deal if you just need to login once and forget about it. But what if you need to scrape some business-related data from a website and the Captcha is on your way?
Maintaining your privacy and anonymity while using the Internet is a tough challenge. Hackers constantly develop new methods and software for spreading malware on the web. One of the ways of dealing with this problem can lay in utilizing proxies for your daily tasks. In this article we will dive deeper into the topic of how to setup a proxy server on Google Chrome on Windows and Mac OS.
One of the first thoughts while using multiple IPs would be: How do I optimize my use of proxies from the current pool without manual hassle? And that’s where rotating proxies will come to help you. With special rotation mechanisms on the side of the proxy provider, you will be able to have a new IP upon each new request to the target site or after a certain timeframe.
From time to time, you may face a need for overpassing the restriction of your school or workplace on web browsing. If you urgently need to get access to a website for a short time, you can try to use Google Translate as a proxy server. In this article, we will discuss ways of using Google Translate as a proxy for accessing restricted web pages.
Browser, server and your computer need to process a number of actions to give a result for any of your requests in a search bar. User agent comes as an essential part of this process. Without this technology, your browser won't be able to communicate with sites. In data harvesting projects, user agents also play an important and in some case major role. Overall quality of scraping highly depends on the user agent's rotation. In this article, we will discuss all the important details about user agents in the context of web scraping.
Once you have decided on the fact that you need a set of reliable proxies for your online mission, you can proceed to allocating a budget for such IPs. But how exactly will you decide on what proxies would do the job in your particular case? What types of proxies to go for? Fast DC servers or static residential proxies? What if you need datacenter rotating proxies instead for your use case?
Web scraping is all about accessing websites for collecting data or information critical for business purposes. You can use special tools, bots or scripts to perform this function, and, in most cases, you will need a set or reliable proxies to hide your online presence under different IPs in order to stay below the radars of anti-scraping systems.
If you ever encountered a Captcha, you would know the sole purpose of it. This is a mechanism that a website resorts to in order to verify that you are a legitimate user and not a machine. And this is not a big deal if you just need to login once and forget about it. But what if you need to scrape some business-related data from a website and the Captcha is on your way?