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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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The Best Antidetect Browsers of 2024

Have you ever wanted to surf the web invisibly, leaving no trace behind? Welcome to the world of antidetect browsers, your go-to tool for maintaining online anonymity. By leveraging to...

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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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The different types of proxies and their uses

A proxy server acts as an intermediary between your computer and the internet, it plays a crucial role in managing network requests and responses. It's like having a middle man that no...

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What is data parsing and what are its benefits?

At its core, data parsing is the process of converting data from one format to another. This often involves transforming unstructured data into a structured format that is easier to un...

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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 Web Crawler and How Does it Work?

Web crawling is a fundamental process that powers the internet as we know it. It involves a bot, often referred to as a web crawler, spider, or search engine bot, systematically browsi...

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Quick Guide to writing a G2 review | SOAX

G2, as you might already know, is a key website for real users to share authentic reviews about software, tools, and platforms that they use. Experiences and insights in these reviews ...

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What is an Anonymous Proxy and VPN?

The primary function of a proxy is to make users anonymous and secure their privacy. But in reality a proxy can reveal the true IP address or inform a website that its visitor uses a p...

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What is Alternative Data and How to Collect It? | SOAX Blog

“Alternative” data refers to the footprint users leave while surfing the internet, using financial instruments, or filing documents. Same as any data, it can help to inform decisions a...

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How to Change and Disable Your Geolocation in Browser? | SOAX Blog

Geolocation determines a user’s location and ties it to a web browser or an app. Many websites use this information to adjust users’ browsing experience so it matches their current loc...

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What is the Difference Between IPv4 and IPv6? | SOAX Blog

IPv4 and IPv6 are both versions of TCP/IP protocols. If this sounds like a curse your system administrator used to whisper under their breath, please read on. IP refers to Internet Pro...

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What is the Difference Between VPN vs VPS | SOAX Blog

VPN and VPS sound so similar, yet one letter makes a big difference. In this blog, we’ll explore what each of them is, how they work, what they are used for, what their benefits and dr...

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Proxy for Email Protection: Why and How to Use It? | SOAX Blog

Emails play an important role in private lives and business operations. This makes them a valuable target for the hackers, who constantly increase their malicious toolkit for collectin...

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What is Sneaker Proxy and How Does It Work? | SOAX Blog

There are a few ways to get your hands on the latest sneakers. For those who love sneakers and hate paying full price, there are always Sneaker Proxies that allow you to purchase up-to...

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HTTP Proxy: What Is It and How Does It Work? | SOAX Blog

A computer connects to the Internet using an IP address assigned by ISP (internet service provider). This IP address handles outgoing requests and incoming traffic. A proxy acts as ano...

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What Is Browser Fingerprinting and How Does It Work? | SOAX Blog

Browser Fingerprinting is a method that websites use to collect unique information about a browser and a network device. Initially, fingerprinting was used for websites to be displayed...

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Proxy for Gmail: Step-By-Step Guide How to Set Up Gmail Proxies | SOAX Blog

Email is an essential tool for so many everyday activities, from our private lives to business tasks. Gmail is one of the most popular email platforms with over 1.8 billion users globa...

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What Is Open Proxy and How to Effectively Use It? | SOAX Blog

As the internet has become an integral part of our lives, our need for online security also became vitally important. In an attempt to protect sensitive data and keep anonymity while s...

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Proxy for Chrome: How to Set Up and Use It? | SOAX Blog

Google Chrome is the most popular internet browser in the world. Over 3 billion people use it for daily personal and business activities. In this article, we’ll explore how to use Goog...

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Proxy on Android: How to Set Up and Use

Proxy services provide internet users with a certain level of anonymity as they browse the web and enable them to access geo restricted websites. While proxies are often used on comput...

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How to Set Up a Proxy Server on iPhone or iPad?

There are several reasons for which you would want to set up a proxy server on your iOS device. Networks in offices or schools often require you to use one or you might just want to st...

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How to Test a Proxy?

In this article, we will talk about why and how to test proxies using different tools. Let us recall why you might be interested in using a proxy in the first place. A proxy protects y...

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Proxy Server Errors: the Main Types and Ways to Fix Them

To understand a proxy server error, one needs to understand what a proxy server is. A proxy server is a server that functions as an intermediary between the user and a webpage by recei...

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What are Shared Proxies?

There are different types of proxies and selecting the best fit for your needs might be confusing at first. Whilst the ultimate goal of all proxies remains the same – to protect the id...

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What is an Elite Proxy and How to Get It?

If you are among the millions of people who are searching for a way of using the internet for their benefits while securing their data, saving bandwidths and having complete access to ...

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What Are CAPTCHA Proxies and How Do They Work?

Everyone has come across a CAPTCHA before; the security feature that many websites have enabled is usually disruptive and, in parts, annoying. They can be harmful when you get them whi...

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Static vs Rotating Proxies: what's the difference?

When working with web scraping and other online data-driven projects there are so many choices to make: for example, what type of proxies to use, what proxy provider to go with, and sh...

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Free vs. Paid Proxies: The Pros & Cons

In this article, we’re going to break down the differences between free vs. paid proxies, and provide you with an insight into why “free” does not always mean “better”. Should you use ...

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Datacenter Proxies vs. Residential Proxies

When you’re browsing the web your real IP address is like your ID. The websites you access can easily track your location and block your IP if your http requests are deemed suspicious....

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VPN vs. Proxy: What’s the Difference?

Both VPN and proxy allow you to securely and anonymously access web resources from any location. Despite having this in common, the two services have their own pros and cons, and work ...

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Headless Browser for Web Scraping: Usage Features

In this post, we share our fascination with Headless Browsers and recommend a suitable development library for your project. It might come in handy if you work in data science, website...

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Geo-Blocking: What is It and How to Bypass

Have you ever seen a warning “this content is not available in your country” on a streaming platform? Or maybe you noticed that the search results and advertisements look very differen...

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