Web Scraping · Proxynet Blog

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    Access to This Page Has Been Denied: Causes and Fixes

    Access to this page has been denied is HUMAN's (formerly PerimeterX) bot check. Turn on JavaScript and cookies, pause blockers and VPNs, then press and hold.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    Playwright Timeout 30000ms Exceeded: Causes and Fixes

    Playwright timeout 30000ms exceeded means a navigation, a locator, an expect check or the whole test ran out of time. Read the call log, then fix the cause.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is IP Reputation and Why Proxies Get Blocked

    IP reputation is a score built from an address's past behaviour and network type. Here is what it measures, why proxies get blocked and how it recovers.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    Proxies for Google Rank Tracking: Why Location Matters

    Google builds a different results page for each country, city, language and device, so a rank check is only as accurate as the place it runs from.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    Web Scraping in Python with Rotating Proxies

    Point requests or httpx at one rotating gateway, retry 429s with backoff, cap concurrency and verify the exit IP. Tested Python code, per-request vs sticky.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    Web Scraping vs API: Which One Should You Use?

    An API returns the data a provider chooses to share, in a fixed format; web scraping reads the page itself. We compare both and fetch the same data both ways.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is Web Scraping and How Does It Work?

    Web scraping is the automated collection of data from web pages: a program downloads the HTML, picks out fields and saves them. How it works and what it is for.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    Cheerio Web Scraping in Node.js: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

    Cheerio parses HTML in Node.js with jQuery-style selectors. Build a tested scraper with fetch, pagination, a concurrency limit, retries, JSON and a proxy.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    How to Clean Scraped Data with Pandas in Python

    Clean scraped data with pandas by fixing text first, then types, duplicates, gaps and outliers, and validating before you save. A full tested script included.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    How to Extract Data From PDF Files: Tables, Text and OCR

    Check whether the PDF has a text layer first. If it does, Excel or pdfplumber reads the tables directly; scanned pages need OCR. Tested Python code inside.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    How to Handle Personal Data (PII) in Scraped Datasets

    Scraped data often carries personal data: names, profile links, emails and phone numbers in free text. How to find it, cut it down, mask it and store it safely.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    How to Save Scraped Data to CSV, JSON and SQLite

    Save scraped rows to CSV for spreadsheets, JSON Lines for append-only logs and SQLite for deduplicated, incremental runs. Tested Python code included.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
  1. Access to This Page Has Been Denied: Causes and Fixes

    Web Scraping

    Published

  2. Playwright Timeout 30000ms Exceeded: Causes and Fixes

    Tutorial

    Published

  3. What Is IP Reputation and Why Proxies Get Blocked

    Proxies

    Published

  4. Proxies for Google Rank Tracking: Why Location Matters

    Use Cases

    Published

  5. Web Scraping in Python with Rotating Proxies

    Web Scraping

    Published

  6. Web Scraping vs API: Which One Should You Use?

    Comparison

    Published

  7. What Is Web Scraping and How Does It Work?

    Web Scraping

    Published

  8. Cheerio Web Scraping in Node.js: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

    Tutorial

    Published

  9. How to Clean Scraped Data with Pandas in Python

    Tutorial

    Published

  10. How to Extract Data From PDF Files: Tables, Text and OCR

    Tutorial

    Published

  11. How to Handle Personal Data (PII) in Scraped Datasets

    Web Scraping

    Published

  12. How to Save Scraped Data to CSV, JSON and SQLite

    Tutorial

    Published