So i am using Scrapy to crawl some websites and i want to increase my privacy on the internet and also avoid getting banned so i read that i could achieve that by using premium proxy lists like http://www.ninjasproxy.com/ or http://hidemyass.com/ or VPN or Tor.
From what i understood a paid VPN would be a good option like the one http://hidemyass.com/ offers, but i can't seem to find any code that actually shows Scrapy integrating with a VPN like hidemyass.
I only saw an example like https://github.com/aivarsk/scrapy-proxies that shows how to use proxy lists.
How do i make Scrapy work with a VPN? If i can't are proxy lists good enough to maintain anonymity?
A VPN is something working system wide, not something that proxy selected traffic. All your internet traffic, browser, torrent, chat etc etc will be routed through the VPN, so just connect to the VPN and run the script.
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I am a beginner programmer. How would I approach this problem? I want to provide Python with certain webpages and certain actions to take on said webpages. The problem is, the webpages are region restricted, so I have to use a VPN constantly. Would there be any way to have Python automatically connect to a vpn service (Mullvad, NordVPN etc) to a specific country while running the code? Thanks.
Excluding VPNs you could use proxies. But if you need to use a VPN I suggest looking at the Google results for your specific provider, like this one for Nord.
I am doing web scraping with python in some pages and I have been blocked from some of them. When I have tried to check it also through the TOR Browser I have seen that I cannot access to the pages neither, so I think that these pages have been able to track all my IP or I dont have well configurated TOR (and I think not cause I have checked my IP address with Chrome and TOR and are different), so, any one knows why?
Also, I am trying to do a function or method in my python code to change mi IP automatically. What I have seen is that the best is to do it through the TOR browser (using it as the search engine to get data from pages) but I am not able to make it work. Do you have any recommendation to create this function?
Thank you!
I would expect anti scrape protection to also block visits from known Tor exit nodes. I dont think they know it is you. Some websites hire/implement state of the art scrape protection services.
You could setup your own proxies at friends and family and use a very conservative crawl rate or maybe search for commercial residential proxy offerings.
I have an unlimited internet connection in my house and a limited internet connection in the school.
I want to make a web browser (or something like that) that navigate from my house, get the data (including the streamings), and resends it to my browser in the school.
In Python, using WebKit, a web browser can be created easily and navigate youtube and other pages, I want to recreate that navigation in the other web browser (the one connected in my school).
School browser ⟶ send request to program or another Web browser ⟶ get page data (including streaming) ⟶ tunneling ⟶ sent to school browser.
It’s something like to do a remote web browser.
It sounds like you are trying to make a home private proxy server.
There are plenty of guides on how to do this but here's one I found by quickly looking around:
https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/sploit-make-proxy-server-python-0161232/
Depending on your school's restriction method, a proxy server may not be enough to bypass their restrictions. You may also be able to overcome this by completely encrypting communications between your home network and your school system. To do this you would need to set up a home virtual private network (VPN). There are also many guides that you can use to achieve this.
I am trying to make a "proxy" in Python that allows the user to route all of their web traffic through a host machine (this is mainly for me and a couple people I know to confuse/avoid hackers and/or spies, who would only see web pages and so on coming in through one IP). I have run into several difficulties. The first is that I would like to be able to use the final, compiled product with Firefox, which can be set to route all of its traffic through an installed proxy program. I don't know what kind of configuration my proxy needs to have to do this. Second, the way the proxy works is by using urllib.requests.urlretrieve (yes, going to die soon, but I like it) to download a webpage onto the host computer (it's inefficient and slow, but it's only going to be used for a max of 7-10 clients) and then sending the file to the client. However, this results in things like missing pictures or broken submission forms. What should I be using to get the webpages right (I want things like SSL and video streaming to work as well as pictures and whatnot).
(wince) this sounds like "security through obscurity", and a lot of unnecessary work.
Just set up an ssh tunnel and proxy your web traffic through that.
See http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/use-ssh-create-http-proxy
I am developing a web crawling project using Python and Scrapy framework. It crawls approax 10k web pages from e-commerce shopping websites. whole project is working fine but before moving the code from testing server into production server i want choose a better proxy ip provider service, so that i dont have to worry about my IP Blocking or Denied access of websites to my spiders .
Until now i am using middleware in Scrapy to manually rotate ip from free proxy ip list available of various websites like this
Now i am confused about the options i should chosse
Buy premium proxy list from http://www.ninjasproxy.com/ or http://hidemyass.com/
Use TOR
Use VPN Service like http://www.hotspotshield.com/
Any Option better than above three
Here are the options I'm currently using (depending on my needs):
proxymesh.com - reasonable prices for smaller projects. Never had any issues with the service as it works out of the box with scrapy (I'm not affiliated with them)
a self-build script that starts several EC2 micro instances on Amazon. I then SSH into the machines and create a SOCKS proxy connection, those connections are then piped through delegated to create normal http proxies which are usable with scrapy. The http proxies can either be loadbalanced with something like haproxy or you build yourself a custom middleware that rotates proxies
The latter solution is what currently works best for me and pushes around 20-30GB per day of traffic without any problems.
Crawlera is built specifically for web crawling projects. For example, it implements smart algorithms to avoid getting banned and it is used to crawl very large and high profile websites.
Disclaimer: I work for the mother company Scrapinghub, who also are core developers of Scrapy.
If you don't want to use a paid service please consider just using a scrapy library that will automate rotating proxies for you: https://github.com/TeamHG-Memex/scrapy-rotating-proxies
You can have a look for a full tutorial on how to automate it here: https://tinyendian.com/articles/how-to-scrape-the-web-and-not-get-caught
Keep in mind, that when connecting through a proxy always imposes a performance penalty, but 10K web pages that you mentioned is still well within your reach.