Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in fetching proxies

Building a Simple Proxy Rotator with JavaScript and Puppeteer

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 2, 2023

Fetch and parse proxies using Puppeteer and cheerio, and select a random proxy for JavaScript projects.

Building a Simple Proxy Rotator with C++ and libcurl

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 2, 2023

A simple proxy rotator in C++ using libcurl and RapidXML to fetch and parse proxies from sslproxies.org. Consider using a rotating proxy service for production use.

Building a Simple Proxy Rotator with Scala and Scraping

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 2, 2023

A simple Scala proxy rotator using ScalaJS for web scraping, fetching and parsing proxies periodically from a proxy site.

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