Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in proxy authentication

How to Setup Proxy in Selenium in 2024

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Learn how to use proxies in Selenium for web scraping, including proxy configuration, authentication, rotating proxies, and troubleshooting. Proxies are essential for avoiding blocks and scaling your web scrapers.

Using Proxies in reqwest with Rust in 2024

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Proxies are intermediaries that forward along your requests. Reqwest has first-class proxy support for routing requests through proxies. Proxy authentication, custom proxy rules, and bypassing proxies for certain domains are also covered. Advanced proxy usage techniques such as capturing traffic and using asynchronous proxies are discussed. Proxies API is recommended as a managed API service for proxy functionality.

How to Use Proxy in Playwright in 2024

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Learn how to use proxies in Playwright for web scraping to avoid IP blocks, authenticate proxies, configure proxy protocols, intercept network traffic, and more.

Using Proxies in LWP::UserAgent in Perl in 2024

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Proxies are essential for web scraping to prevent blocks. LWP::UserAgent makes it easy to configure proxies for large-scale scraping. Learn how to use proxies, handle proxy authentication, make SSL/HTTPS requests, and debug common issues.

Using Proxies with Ruby's Open-URI for Web Scraping in 2024

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Jan 9, 2024

Configure proxies for Ruby scrapers using open-uri. Learn how to specify proxies, leverage environment variables, work with HTTP proxies, handle authentication and authorization, and troubleshoot common proxy errors.

How to Use cURL with a Proxy

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Apr 30, 2024

cURL is a powerful command-line tool for transferring data using proxies. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS proxies, and allows for data extraction and proxy authentication.

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