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Lisa Whelan

Lisa is a London-based tech expert and AI enthusiast. With a decade of experience, she specializes in writing about data, web scraping, and cybersecurity. She's here to share valuable insights and break down complex technical concepts for the SOAX audience.

How to get a sneaker bot: Complete guide for 2024

Sneaker bots are software programs that automate the process of buying sneakers online. Buying sneakers using a sneaker bot gives you a massive advantage over people who try to purchas...

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How to scrape a website with Python (With examples and code snippets)

Web scraping is a powerful way to extract information from websites. It automates data collection, saving you from tedious manual work (like copying and pasting the data you need). If ...

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How to scrape eBay: A step-by-step guide for beginners

As the second most visited online marketplace in 2023, eBay accumulates vast amounts of useful data for entrepreneurs, marketers, researchers, and others. By scraping eBay data in real...

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Forward proxy vs. reverse proxy - What’s the difference?

When you navigate the internet, your device doesn’t always connect directly to the destination server. Instead, requests are often routed through a proxy before reaching their destinat...

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How to scrape Amazon: Step-by-step guide with examples

Learning to scrape product data from the Amazon website can seem complex at first, but you can simplify the process by using a scraper API, so you don’t have to build a scraper or mana...

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What is bot detection and how does it work? (With examples)

Bots generate nearly half of all traffic (49.6%) on the internet. While not all bot traffic is malicious, many websites use bot detection tools to identify and block certain types of b...

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What is IP blocking? How to get around an IP ban (5 ways)

Websites, games, and applications can block a specific IP address, which prevents anyone using that IP address from accessing their service. This is called an IP ban. Administrators ca...

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How to bypass CAPTCHA while web scraping (3 methods)

CAPTCHA systems are designed to look for patterns that distinguish bots from humans. By injecting randomness and human-like behavior into your scrapers actions, you make it much harder...

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How to track an IP address (3 methods)

Tracking an IP address can help you gather information about the physical location of a device that’s connected to the internet. It can also reveal some technical and contextual inform...

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Dolphin Anty review - A powerful anti-detect browser

Dolphin Anty is an anti-detect browser that is customized for affiliate marketing. Dolphin Anty gives you the power to manage multiple accounts on various platforms while ensuring thos...

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What is web scraping? – Learn how web scraping works

When you collect data from the web and aggregate it into one place, we call it web scraping. Although this can be a manual process (i.e. copy and pasting from websites yourself), “web ...

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Web Crawling vs. Web Scraping - What’s the Difference?

Web crawling and web scraping are related concepts, but they serve different purposes in the context of retrieving information from the internet. Web crawling is the term for scanning ...

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What is a backconnect proxy? The complete guide

A proxy is a server that sits between your device and the internet. Proxies handle requests from your device and forward them to the internet, which replaces your real IP address with ...

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What is a transparent proxy and how does it work?

A transparent proxy is a kind of forward proxy, because it forwards requests from your device to the internet. It's called "transparent" because it does not alter your request before f...

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What is a forward proxy and how do they work?

A forward proxy manages requests between your device and the internet. It is called a “forward” proxy because it “forwards” requests from your device to the internet instead of your de...

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