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Rotating proxies and why they are important | Rotating proxy

Neha Setia Nagpal
4 Mins
March 22, 2022
If you are new to proxies, we recommend skimming through this blog to understand what a proxy is and why you need proxies for web scraping.

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Why you need the best proxies for web scraping

Neha Setia Nagpal
4 Mins
March 10, 2022
Before we begin, take a look at this short video - it's the scene from Harry Potter where he gets The Invisibility Cloak. It’ll help us better understand the concepts behind proxies.

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Using Headless Browsers In Web Scraping and Data Extraction

Pawel Miech
4 Mins
September 15, 2021
If you’re involved in any kind of web data extraction project, you’ve probably heard about headless browser scraping.

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Scale Up Your Scrapy Projects With Smart Proxy Manager

John Campbell
3 Mins
July 1, 2021
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use smart proxy manager to scale up your already existing Scrapy project in order to make more requests and extract more web data.

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How To Get High Success Rates With Proxies

Attila Toth
3 Mins
July 14, 2020
In this article, we give you some insight on how you can scale up your web data extraction project.

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Ways for Web Scraping Without Getting Blocked

Attila Toth
6 Mins
February 27, 2020
Web scraping is when you extract data from the web and put it in a structured format.

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Backconnect proxy explained

Attila Toth
4 Mins
December 10, 2019
Adding proxies is one of the first actions you will need to take. You will need to manage a healthy proxy pool to avoid bans.

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How to use Zyte Smart Proxy Manager with Scrapy

Attila Toth
2 Mins
November 14, 2019
Zyte Smart Proxy Manager is a proxy service, specifically designed for web scraping. In this article, you are going to learn how to use Zyte Smart Proxy Manager inside your Scrapy spider.

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Python Requests Proxy Module | How to use proxies

Attila Toth
4 Mins
August 22, 2019
Configuring and using proxies is not easy, especially when sending HTTP requests.

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How To Set Up A Custom Proxy In Scrapy

Attila Toth
5 Mins
August 8, 2019