Proxies for web Scraping.
Web scraping can be difficult, particularly when most popular sites put heavy restrictions on access from certain IP addresses.
In order to properly scrape most popular sites, developers should use residential proxies, rotating proxies, or other IP rotation methods with top proxy services in order to avoid having their web scrapers blocked or shut down, particularly when running scrapers in data centers, where IP addresses are often blacklisted from visiting popular sites on the consumer internet.
Choosing the correct proxy service can often be a balancing act between speed, price, and reliability. It can be hard to tell which proxy service providers provide a quality service, Some of the proxy services for web scraping developer are: Scraper API ,Luminati and Crawlera etc. We will learn in details about Scraper API.
[ Scraper API ] is a tool for developers building web scrapers, it handles proxies, browsers, and CAPTCHAs so developers can get the raw HTML from any website with a simple API call.
It doesn’t burden you with managing your own proxies, Scraper API manages rotating ip addresses using its pool of over a hundreds of thousands of datacenter proxies, residential proxies, and mobile proxies from over a dozen of the best proxy providers with proxy servers in over 50 countries.
Scraper API has smart routing logic that routes requests through different subnets and automatically throttles requests in order to avoid IP bans and CAPTCHAs. As one of the only services that offers free rotating proxies, it’s an excellent Crawlera alternative or Luminati alternative, with special pools of US rotating proxies, ecommerce proxies, search engine proxies, social media proxies, sneaker proxies, ticket proxies and more!
In simple word we can say that Scraper API with each request it will return a string containing the raw html from the page requested, along with any headers and cookies without us being worried about getting bans.
Basic Usage:
There are the some basic ways to use Scraper API with Python.
Custom Headers:
If you would like to keep the original request headers in order to pass through custom headers (user agents, cookies, etc.), simply set keep_headers=true.
Geographic Location:
Some website have given access from particular country. To ensure your requests come from the particular country , You can use the country_code= flag (e.g. country_code=us).
If you wanna know more about scraper API go through the documentation.
Happy Coding …