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How to Use Splash with Proxies for Scraping JavaScript Webpages
Learn different ways to use proxies for web scraping with Splash In web scraping, we often need to use proxies because of IP blocking or geolocation-sensitive data which means the scraped data can change depending on the geolocations of the IPs making the requests. It is straightforward to specify proxies for regular web scraping. However, when… Continue reading
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How to Connect to GCP Cloud SQL with Cloud SQL Auth Proxy in Docker
Cloud SQL on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a great service if you want to host your relational databases in the cloud. There are some standard ways to connect to Cloud SQL from your GCP resources like Cloud Run, Compute engine, etc. However, it’s not as well documented regarding how to connect your dockerized… Continue reading
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How to scrape JavaScript webpages using ProxyCrawl in Python
Due to the increasing popularity of modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, and Vue, more and more websites are now built dynamically with JavaScript. This poses a challenge for web scraping because the HTML markup is not available in the source code. Therefore, we cannot scrape these JavaScript webpages directly and need to render… Continue reading