Proxynet Blog – Page 10

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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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    WhatsApp Proxy Settings: How to Turn It On and Off

    WhatsApp proxy settings live under Settings > Storage and Data > Proxy. How to turn the proxy on and off, and why an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy won't work there.

    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
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    Sentiment Analysis in Python: VADER vs Hugging Face

    Sentiment analysis in Python labels text as positive, neutral or negative. We score product reviews with NLTK's VADER and a Hugging Face model and compare them.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is Alternative Data? Sources, Uses and Risks

    Alternative data is information from outside company filings, such as web prices, job posts, card panels and satellite images. Sources, uses and compliance.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is Credential Stuffing? How to Detect and Prevent It

    Credential stuffing is the automated reuse of leaked username and password pairs on other sites. How it works, the signs in your logs and how to stop it.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is Data Parsing? Parser Types, Errors and Examples

    Data parsing turns raw input such as HTML, JSON, CSV or logs into structured records your code can use. How parsers work, the main types and the usual errors.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is ETL? Extract, Transform, Load With a Python Example

    ETL means extracting data from a source, cleaning it into a fixed shape and loading it into a database. How it works, ETL vs ELT and a tested Python job.

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

    Web Scraping

    Published

  2. WhatsApp Proxy Settings: How to Turn It On and Off

    Tutorial

    Published

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

    Tutorial

    Published

  4. How to Clean Scraped Data with Pandas in Python

    Tutorial

    Published

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

    Tutorial

    Published

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

    Web Scraping

    Published

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

    Tutorial

    Published

  8. Sentiment Analysis in Python: VADER vs Hugging Face

    Tutorial

    Published

  9. What Is Alternative Data? Sources, Uses and Risks

    Use Cases

    Published

  10. What Is Credential Stuffing? How to Detect and Prevent It

    Proxies

    Published

  11. What Is Data Parsing? Parser Types, Errors and Examples

    Web Scraping

    Published

  12. What Is ETL? Extract, Transform, Load With a Python Example

    Web Scraping

    Published