Proxynet Blog – Page 3

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    What Is a VPN and How Does It Work?

    A VPN sends your device's traffic through an encrypted tunnel to a server, so sites see that server's IP. How it works, what it hides and which protocol to use.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is an IP Address? Public, Private, IPv4 and IPv6

    An IP address is the number that lets data find your device on a network. See what it is used for, public vs private, IPv4 vs IPv6 and how to find yours.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is an ISP Proxy and When Do You Need One?

    An ISP proxy is a static IP registered to a consumer ISP but hosted in a data center. How it works, how it differs from residential and datacenter, when to buy.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and How Does It Work?

    Deep packet inspection (DPI) reads past a packet's addresses into the data it carries to identify apps and threats. How it works and what it sees in HTTPS.

    Written by: Acar Diveroli
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    What Is DNS and How Do You Change Your DNS Server?

    DNS turns site names into IP addresses. Learn how a lookup works, which DNS server fits your needs and how to change it on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone.

    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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    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
  1. What Is a VPN and How Does It Work?

    Proxies

    Published

  2. What Is an IP Address? Public, Private, IPv4 and IPv6

    Proxies

    Published

  3. What Is an ISP Proxy and When Do You Need One?

    Proxies

    Published

  4. What Is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and How Does It Work?

    Proxies

    Published

  5. What Is DNS and How Do You Change Your DNS Server?

    Proxies

    Published

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

    Web Scraping

    Published

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

    Tutorial

    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