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What is a proxy server? See examples of the best use cases

Roy Healy
4 Mins
November 10, 2021
If you’ve ever worked on a web scraping project, you’ve most likely heard of a proxy server. But what exactly does a proxy server mean and how does it affect your web scraping project?

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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.