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How to scrape a website with Selenium: Step-by-step guide for beginners

Selenium is a powerful set of tools that you can use with a number of languages to scrape websites. This step-by-step guide is designed for beginners who want to start scraping with Selenium in Python. After following the steps in this guide, you will be able to move on to more complex Selenium scraping projects.

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How to scrape Shopee: A step-by-step guide

If you’ve ever tried to scrape Shopee the way you scrape other websites, you’d have realized how surprisingly difficult it can be as the website has sophisticated anti-scraping measures — such as IP bans, CAPTCHAs, and bot-detection algorithms.

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How to bypass CAPTCHA for web scraping

CAPTCHA systems are designed to look for patterns that distinguish bots from humans. By injectinghuman-like behavior into your scraper, you make it much harder for these systems to tell the difference, reducing the chances of being blocked.

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How to scrape a real website using Python (plus 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). This guide shows you how to use Python to scrape real websites.

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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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Find out about the possibilities of SOAX proxies in PROXYWAY research | SOAX Blog

A new guide to all things proxy by PROXYWAY is released and SOAX did not disappoint. Find more about SOAX outstanding features. In 2021, the use of datacenter traffic increased by 60%,...

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SOAX named a High Performer and Leader in G2 Grid Report | SOAX Blog

SOAX receives two nominations: G2, the peer-to-peer review site, names SOAX a High Performer and Leader in their recent Confidentiality Software Report. SOAX receives two nominations: ...

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Dedicated Proxy: What is It and How Does It Work?

All proxies have the ultimate goal of protecting users’ privacy and security. At the same time, different types of proxies strive to achieve this goal through slightly different means ...

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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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What is a Reverse Proxy and How Does It Work?

It is well-known that a proxy determines the relationship between a user and a web server (or a website). But it is the traffic flow direction that defines who benefits from this relat...

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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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