How to scrape successfully

Bypass Location Restrictions

To scrape data, you’ll need to ensure that your scrapers are not blocked by your target website due to your location. Proxies allow you to bypass location restrictions, but the quality of proxies varies across providers, and you’ll get what you pay for. Scraping smoothly requires proxies with comprehensive global coverage and IPs that are verified as legitimate. Otherwise, you’ll keep getting blocked and waste time.

Automate Website Unlocking Management

Another dimension to web scraping that you’ll need to keep in mind is unblocking management and adjusting to site changes. Websites are increasingly able to use bot-detection software and sophisticated blocking mechanisms. To complete a scraping project well, you must account for bypassing CAPTCHA, rotating proxies, browser fingerprinting, and selecting headers, cookies, and Javascript rendering.

Interact with Websites

Many data scraping projects will require you to interact with websites to retrieve your data (hovering, navigating pages, etc.), or may require JavaScript rendering. These scraping projects will therefore require that you use a browser for these interactions. When scaling your data collection, you’ll need an extensive infrastructure to host many browsers.