Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in proxy rotator

Building a Simple Proxy Rotator with PHP and SimpleHTMLDOM

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 2, 2023

Implement a rotating proxy in PHP using free proxies from sslproxies.org. Use SimpleHTMLDOM and cURL to fetch and parse the proxies. Rotate IPs and User-Agent-String to avoid IP blocking with Proxies API.

Building a Simple Proxy Rotator with Ruby and Nokogiri

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 2, 2023

Fetch and use public proxies in Ruby projects using Nokogiri and free proxy lists. Scale to thousands of links with a rotating proxy service like Proxies API.

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.

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.

Building a Simple Proxy Rotator with Objective-C

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 2, 2023

Fetch and parse proxies from free proxy pools to rotate and use in Objective-C projects, solving IP blocking problems with a rotating proxy service.

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