Simple but powerful Web Scraping API - We provide fully managed web scraping through a simple REST API. The promise is to turn any website into database effortlessly in a unified tool.
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We tried all Major Web scraping API on the market, Scrapfly offer the best success rate/performance. The monitoring feature is very helpful. Happy to pay for their service.
Our service rely on lot of data and we have to scrape a lot of targets to gather and consolidate data on our side to provide insight. We do not have to worry anymore about scaling browser or bypassing anti bot protection, they are reliable and provide strong communication. Compared to traditional proxy provider they provide a flat price per call which is predictable and cheaper than $/GB
Try with https://scrapfly.io with JavaScript rendering enabled, and see if it works. Then means you can use proxies to scrape the site. But just to let you know, their proxies are expensive. But really fast. You have 1000 free credit to try. Source: over 1 year ago
The question I have is am I going to face an issue once I have deployed the lambda and all its required dependencies? Along the line of ip blocking etc. At this point with all the moving parts would it be easier and maybe even cheaper to use something like https://scrapfly.io/? Source: almost 2 years ago
As for solutions, you are on point. Running a headless browser or using a web scraping API that does that for you (I work at one: https://scrapfly.io hi) is the easiest way to do it. Note that because of javascript fingerprinting you still need to fortify your headless browsers with various scripts like puppeteer-stealth. Source: about 2 years ago
Alternatively, you can spend 30$ or something on a web scraping API (like Scrapfly, I work here) that runs cloud browsers for you and save you a significant headache :). Source: over 2 years ago
If you're only interested in getting the job done, then I'd recommend skipping all of this magic and using a web scraping API that manages the connection for you. I work at scrapfly.io and the cheapest plan should easily handle your use case :). Source: over 2 years ago
Now, what could you do to fix this? Well first, you're quite lucky it works on your Linux machine which might not last that long - if you scale up your scraper a bit it's likely it'll start responding with 403s just like your Windows version. Then, getting around cloudflare anti-scraper protection is pretty difficult, it's possible but requires a lot of research: you probably need real, fortified browsers with... Source: over 2 years ago
To get around that you need browser automation (via Selenium, Playwright or Puppeteer) with loads of patches and high-quality proxies or a web scraping API that does that for you like ScrapFly (disclaimer: I work here). Source: over 2 years ago
Though take note that you might be requested to login if Instagram doesn't like you for whatever reason (they usually give you X no-login views per a certain amount of time). For scraping this at scale you'll need some proxies or web scraping APIs (like ScrapFly - I work here :). Source: over 2 years ago
That being said, give it a shot - it's better than no proxies at all, usually. For small projects, I'm really fond of Webshare's free 10 proxies which are surprisingly stable and easy to work with (though have a low bandwidth limit). Other than that, another free resource you can take advantage of is ScrapFly's free plan which will get you up to 1000 requests/month (I work here :). Source: over 2 years ago
Though blocking is such a huge subject that web scraping API such as ScrapFly (I work here) can save you a lot of time :). Source: almost 3 years ago
I'm not a fan of self advertising but that's the reason ScrapFly web scraping API was founded - because abstracting away proxy pool logic out of your web scraper just makes everything so much easier! Was this proxy used by someone or by your own web scraper? How to distribute proxies across your whole scraping stack etc becomes such an exhausting problem so it's much easier to separate it from your scraper - let... Source: almost 3 years ago
There are many ways to approach this. First, you can try httpx with http2 protocol enabled instead of requests. Otherwise you are most likely looking at either using a web scraping API (like ScrapFly I work here :P) or automating a web browser yourself. I have a short intro blog here on Scraping Using Browsers but to summarize you can use Selenium, Playwright or Puppeteer to take control of a real browser which... Source: almost 3 years ago
Solution like scrapfly.io performs very well, you can also try https://github.com/berstend/puppeteer-extra/tree/master/packages/puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth on your own but not really maintained anymore and detected. Source: almost 3 years ago
Though I've used all sort of proxy scenarios from free proxies, to TOR and even recently I tried out cool new approach of using wireguard VPNs as proxies etc. There are a lot of interesting options out there but generally it's a _very time intensive subject_, so if you just want to scrape some data be wary of this and go with scraping API (like ScrapFly ๐) or at least good big name proxies. Source: almost 3 years ago
I've been using https://scrapfly.io/ to bypass security but it is a paid service. I'm open to other suggestions, and trying to convert my repo to let someone swap in their own web scraper security bypassers. Source: almost 3 years ago
I'd definitely recommend either investing into 2captcha (1 captcha solve can get you quite far if you're doing things right) or take a look into web scraping APIs that solve this stuff for you like ScrapFly. Disclaimer: I work here, it's pretty awesome, you can try 1000 pages/month for free! :D. Source: almost 3 years ago
Hello ๐ Scrapfly co-founder here. If you are looking for a reliable service with a high success rate, you could try our API. :). Source: almost 3 years ago
Hello, You can integrate our API (Scrapfly). We have built a Python SDK that will simplify your experience. If you have any questions, don't hesitate. Source: about 3 years ago
Hello ๐ Scrapfly co-founder here. Bhphotovideo.com is working well with our API; You can test it for free ๐. Source: about 3 years ago
Hello ๐ Scrapfly co-founder here, With Scrapfly you can start with only $15 :) but you will need to code a bit. Source: about 3 years ago
- Scrapfly (Probably the best web scraping api on the market) - If you liked ScraperAPI you should test them - you will see the difference - Scrapy (Web Scraping Framework from Zyte) - Browserless (Automation). Source: over 3 years ago
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