What is Proxy Scraper?
This online proxy scraper searches a number of different free-proxy websites and scrapes all of them. Then, optionally, it can test each of those proxies for you on a specified target and timeout, then only return back the proxies which pass the test.
What is a proxy service used for?
A proxy service for scraping is used to manage proxies for a scraping project. A simple proxy scraper service for scraping could simply be a set of proxies that are used in parallel to create the appearance of separate users accessing the site at the same time. A more complex proxy service for scraping would be something like Zyte Smart Proxy Manager (formally Crawlera) which detects proxies that may be “burnt” by antibot systems and cycles them out. proxy scraper services are important for large scraping projects both for mitigating antibot defences and to help speed up handling of requests sent in parallel.
Why use Proxy Scraper?
There are lots of free public proxies available out there, such as Geonode and free-proxy-list.net. All proxies listed on these sites vary in terms quality, speed, and security. Some of them are painfully slow, while others don’t work at all.
This proxy scraper tool is the best way to quickly obtain a list of working public proxies. It uses multithreading to run its automated tests in true concurrency while it scrapes multiple proxies simultaneously, and has a straightforward configuration process, fast runtimes, and reliable outputs.
Proxy Scraper performs two key tasks every time you run it:
* It scrapes all currently available proxies from 17 different free proxy websites and APIs
* It individually tests each proxy
This makes the process of retrieving data from free proxy websites much more accessible, as it removes the need to check each proxy manually.
Just need to scrape the web using proxies?
If you only want to use proxy servers for web scraping, Apify Proxy gives you both residential and datacenter proxies, intelligent proxy rotation, and a large pool of IP addresses. Even better, if you run your web scrapers on the Apify platform, our industry-leading browser fingerprinting research will make your scraping bots indistinguishable from humans.
How to use Proxy Scraper?
1. Choose which proxies to use while scraping the proxies.
2. Select ‘true’ or ‘false’ to choose whether or not to test the proxies and only return the ones that pass.
3. Select ‘true’ or ‘false’ to choose whether or not to run the actor in debug mode.
4. Choose the name of the key-value store in which to save a .txt of the proxies.
5. Select your preferred ‘build’ ‘timeout’ and ‘memory’ options.
6. Click Start.
7. View and download your data in any of the available formats.
What are Proxy Scraper’s limitations?
Currently, Proxy Scraper can find anywhere from 20–60 reliable proxies out of the 2,500 that it scrapes every run. In the future, Proxy Scraper will scrape proxies from more than just the 17 sources currently being used. If you want to know more click here proxy scraper
