Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in request module

How to Build a Super Simple HTTP Proxy in JavaScript in just 20 lines of code

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 1, 2023

Build a basic proxy server with JavaScript using Node.js http and request modules. Avoid IP blocking with a rotating proxy service.

Scraping Multiple Pages in Javascript with Cheerio

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 15, 2023

Web scraping in Javascript using cheerio library to extract data from multiple pages. Fetch pages with request() and parse HTML using cheerio. Scrape and extract information at scale with Proxies API.

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