Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in Mojo::UserAgent

Building a Simple Proxy Rotator with Perl and Mojo

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 2, 2023

Use Mojo::UserAgent to fetch and parse proxy lists, extract proxies, refresh periodically, select a random proxy, and make proxied requests with LWP::UserAgent. Consider using a rotating proxy service like Proxies API to solve IP blocking problems.

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