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  • Best practices for web scraping to avoid getting blocked by websites.

    Posted by Akram Ndidi on 10/24/2024 at 2:08 pm

    Rotate IP addresses using proxies so that you don’t flood the site with too many requests from one location.

    FARHAN AHMED replied 4 days, 17 hours ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Bandile Aadan

    Member
    10/25/2024 at 2:32 pm

    Add delays between requests to mimic human behavior—around 1-2 seconds usually works.

  • Ikaika Kapono

    Member
    10/31/2024 at 6:21 am

    Rotate user-agent strings to make your scraper look like different browsers.

  • FARHAN AHMED

    Member
    10/31/2024 at 10:02 am

    If a website doesn’t use JavaScript to load dynamic content, you can use Python’s `requests` library, passing headers and a proxy to avoid blocking and achieve a high success rate. If the site relies on JavaScript, however, you’ll need to use automation tools like Playwright or Selenium. From my testing, Selenium Stealth works best for avoiding bot detection. Additionally, always use a good, reliable proxy, and try to rotate it with each request or after a few requests to minimize detection.

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