#proxiesapi

Build a daily GitHub trending-developers dataset with Python by extracting names, usernames, avatars, and popular repos from the live page.

Build a practical IMDb scraper that starts from the search suggestion endpoint, enriches title pages, and exports ratings, cast, and release dates with a ProxiesAPI-ready fetch layer.

Scrape Amazon Best Sellers pages into repeatable snapshots, extract ranks and prices, and compute movement over time with a parser that is honest about block risk.

Clarify crawl architecture, queue design, politeness rules, and when crawling is the right move instead of one-off scraping.

Build a UK rentals dataset from Rightmove search pages with titles, rent, bedrooms, agent names, and listing links.

Explain the tradeoffs of raw proxy lists versus managed rotation, validation, and retry layers for production scraping.

Break down how to detect Shopify storefront patterns and extract product, pricing, and availability data without relying on brittle selectors.

Crawl a Wikipedia category tree, collect page titles and URLs, and export a clean CSV with subcategories and article members.

Collect company profile fields from Crunchbase by discovering organization URLs, rendering profile pages, and parsing structured data into CSV.

Teach Java developers how to fetch pages, parse HTML, and add proxy rotation without jumping to heavyweight browser tooling.

Collect repo names, stars, forks, topics, and last-updated metadata from GitHub pages for market and competitor research.

Show how to pull listing titles, prices, neighborhoods, and posting URLs from Craigslist search pages into a clean dataset.

Walk through extracting titles, URLs, and snippets from Google result pages while handling rate limits and anti-bot friction.

Show how to collect listing titles, brands, prices, images, and pagination data from Vinted search pages with ProxiesAPI.

Walk through building a sold-price dataset from Rightmove with listing details, pagination, and clean CSV export.

Explain what Cloudflare 520 usually signals in scraping workflows and give a practical checklist to reduce and debug it.

Scrape Steam specials/search pages via ProxiesAPI, extract discount + price + appid, and persist a daily snapshot to detect price drops. Includes pagination, CSV export, and a screenshot of the target page.

Fetch Shopee product metadata + reviews via ProxiesAPI, paginate ratings safely, and export clean JSON/CSV for analysis. Includes robust URL parsing, retry/backoff, and a screenshot of a real product page.

A practical playbook for eliminating HTTP 429s: rate limits, concurrency control, jittered exponential backoff, token buckets, Retry-After handling, and when proxies help vs hurt. Includes a production-ready Python retry wrapper.

Airbnb is a high-friction target. Here’s what data is realistic to collect in 2026, what gets blocked, safer alternatives, and how to design a risk-aware pipeline.

Build a Craigslist city+category scraper with pagination, dedupe, and CSV export. Includes selectors, anti-block hygiene, and screenshot proof.

Collect arXiv paper metadata (title, authors, abstract) and download PDFs reliably. Includes practical selectors, rate-limits, and screenshot proof.

Free proxy lists look tempting—until you measure uptime, bans, and fraud. Here’s where to find them, how to test them, and when to switch to a proxy API.

Scrape GitHub repo metadata from HTML (not just the API): stars, forks, latest release, open issues, and pull requests. Includes a ProxiesAPI fetch layer, safe parsing, and CSV export + screenshot.

A beginner-friendly explanation of what web scraping is, how it differs from APIs, common use cases, risks (blocks/legal), and a real end-to-end Python example with ProxiesAPI.

A practical guide to rotating proxies: what rotation means, common rotation patterns, sticky vs per-request IPs, and how to decide if rotating proxies are worth it for your scraper.

Collect Ask HN titles, points, authors, comment counts, and thread replies into a reusable startup-signal dataset using Python.

Extract Numbeo city tables for rent and living-cost items, normalize ranges, and build a practical city comparison dataset with a validation screenshot.

Turn the HN Jobs feed into a clean dataset of roles, companies, domains, and links from the real jobs page with resilient pagination and a validation screenshot.

Use ProxiesAPI to collect IMDb search result cards, follow title pages, and export ratings, years, genres, and URLs.