CommonCrawl VS Bright Data

CommonCrawl Reviews

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1. Sam Mitchell    

   Owner at KittenProperties | about 2 months ago
   Mixed feelings

   We used their DC proxies and Residential proxies. Resi proxies were having quite low success rate. We had to use resi solution from other proxy providers. Unblocker didn't work well either also it was way too expensive.

   🏁 Competitors: Smartproxy, NetNut.io

   👍 Pros:    Cheap dc proxies

   👎 Cons:    Quite expensive|Residential proxies are worse than competitiors

CommonCrawl mentions (91)

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

  Common Crawl Foundation | REMOTE | Full and part-time | https://commoncrawl.org/ | web datasets I'm the CTO at the Common Crawl Foundation, which has a 17 year old, 8. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• Ask HN: How does one implement web plagiarism?

  Https://commoncrawl.org/ is a non-profit which offers a pre-crawled dataset. The specifics of individual tools probably vary. I imagine most tools would be based on academic datasets. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI

  Should the NYT not sue https://commoncrawl.org/ ? OpenAI just used the data from commoncrawl for training. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Indexing a Billion Pages

  What you’re likely referring to is Common Crawl: https://commoncrawl.org. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Interview with Viktor Lofgren from Marginalia Search

  > ... a project called "Nutch" would allow web users to crawl the web themselves. Perhaps that promise is similar to the promises being made about "AI" today. The project did not turn out to be used in the way it was predicted (marketed), or even used by web users at all. Actually Nutch is used to produce the Common Crawl[0] and 60% of GPT-3's training data was Common Crawl[1], so in a way it is being used... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Bright Data mentions (28)

• Basic Web Browser with Electron +APIS

  Bright Data (formerly Luminati): One of the largest providers with a wide range of customization options and a large number of IPs available. However, their pricing and usage structure can be complex, especially for new users (Proxyway). - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago

• Scraping the unscrapable in Python using Playwright

  Create a new account on Bright Data to gain access to the admin dashboard of the Scraping Browser for the proxy integration with your application. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Web scraping using a headless browser in NodeJS

  Create an account on Bright Data to access all its services. But for this project, the focus would be on the Scraping Browser functionality. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Private subnet to public NAT to another Public AWS IP address should go public internet, right?

  Luminati, now called https://brightdata.com offers a service which would grant access to residual IPs. Source: 11 months ago

• Is allowed to scrape data using puppeteer from gg.deals?

  I have found all the required html classes and tools to scrape gg.deals website to get the required data for my discord bot. My question is if I am allowed to do that to this specific website without a WebSocket proxy scraping browser like bright data's one or any freely available on the internet. I have tried to contact them using this contact form two times and got nothing as a response. I also found their... Source: about 1 year ago