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Smart Techniques to Avoid Getting Blocked When Web Scraping

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

Web scraping tips: use rotation proxies and random user agents, add realistic delays between requests, and follow robots.txt rules to scrape responsibly.

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