#proxiesapi

14 guides

Scrape Secondhand Fashion Listings from Vinted
Show how to collect listing titles, brands, prices, images, and pagination data from Vinted search pages with ProxiesAPI.
Scrape Rightmove Sold Prices
Walk through building a sold-price dataset from Rightmove with listing details, pagination, and clean CSV export.
Shopify Product Scraping: Prices, Variants, Inventory
Teach a practical approach to extracting Shopify product data, variant details, and stock signals reliably.
Error Code 520: What It Means and How to Fix It When Scraping
Explain what Cloudflare 520 usually signals in scraping workflows and give a practical checklist to reduce and debug it.
Steam Deal Tracker: Scrape Daily Specials + Price Drops (Python + ProxiesAPI)
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.
Scrape Shopee Reviews at Scale: Ratings, Review Text, and Product Metadata
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.
HTTP 429 Too Many Requests While Scraping: Causes, Fixes, and Retry Patterns
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.
Scraping Airbnb Listings: Pricing, Availability, Reviews (What’s Realistic in 2026)
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.
Scrape Craigslist Listings by Category and City (Python + ProxiesAPI)
Build a Craigslist city+category scraper with pagination, dedupe, and CSV export. Includes selectors, anti-block hygiene, and screenshot proof.
Scrape Academic Papers from arXiv: Metadata + PDFs (Python + ProxiesAPI)
Collect arXiv paper metadata (title, authors, abstract) and download PDFs reliably. Includes practical selectors, rate-limits, and screenshot proof.
Best Free Proxy Lists for Web Scraping (and Why They Fail in Production)
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 Repository Data (Stars, Releases, Issues) with Python + ProxiesAPI
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.
What Is Web Scraping? A Plain-English Guide for 2026 (With Real Examples)
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.
Rotating Proxies Explained: How They Work + When You Need Them for Web Scraping
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.