The scraping blog

A collection of resources to help you enhance your web-scraping skills. From product updates to articles, guides and tools to level-up your web scraping.

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    Data scraping, the process of extracting data from websites or APIs, has become an essential tool for businesses and developers alike. Instant data scraping, in particular, allows for real-time data acquisition, making it invaluable for applications requiring up-to-date information.

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    Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) are Google’s response to a user’s search query. SERPs tend to include organic search results, paid Google Ads results, Featured Snippets, Knowledge Graphs, and video results. SERPs play a crucial role in everything from SEO strategies to competitor research.

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    Residential proxies are Internet Service Provider (ISP) that offers a homeowner an IP addresses. These IPs are pegged as authentic because they are assigned to actual addresses, thus outsmarting the blocking attempts of site owners more than datacenter proxies.

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    In web scraping and data collection, encountering the message "your IP has been banned" can disrupt your operations. This article outlines how MrScraper helps you avoid IP bans and continue collecting data smoothly.

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    Scrape smarter, not harder. Scrape GPT brings the power of AI to web scraping, allowing users to extract real-time data with ease. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, this new feature from MrScraper makes data collection as easy as typing a query.

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    Shadowrocket is a powerful proxy utility that allows users to configure proxies for enhanced security, privacy, and access to geo-restricted content. It’s primarily designed for iOS but is also available for macOS and can be configured on other platforms like Android and Windows with alternative methods. Shadowrocket works by routing your Internet traffic through proxies (including VPNs), which makes it an excellent tool for bypassing firewalls, improving privacy, and maintaining anonymity online.

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    499 status code is not officially part of the standard HTTP status code registry but is used by some web servers, especially Nginx, to signal that the client has closed the connection before the server could send a response. Unlike more familiar error codes such as 404 (Not Found) or 500 (Internal Server Error), the 499 error is initiated by the client rather than the server.

    In simple terms, a 499 error occurs when a client, such as a web scraper or a browser, gives up on waiting for the server’s response and closes the connection prematurely.

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John Madrak

Founder, Waddling Technology

We're able to quickly and painlessly create automated
scrapers across a variety of sites without worrying about
getting blocked (loading JS, rotating proxies, etc.),
scheduling, or scaling up when we want more data
- all we need to do is open the site that we want to
scrape in devtools, find the elements that we want to
extract, and MrScraper takes care of the rest! Plus, since
MrScraper's pricing is based on the size of the data that
we're extracting it's quite cheap in comparison to most
other services. I definitely recommend checking out
MrScraper if you want to take the complexity
out of scraping.

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Kim Moser

Computer consultant

Now that I've finally set-up and tested my first scraper,
I'm really impressed. It was much easier to set up than I
would have guessed, and specifying a selector made it
dead simple. Results worked out of the box, on a site
that is super touch about being scraped.

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John

MrScraper User

I actually never expected us to be making this many
requests per month but MrScraper is so easy that we've
been increasing the amount of data we're collecting -
I have a few more scrapers that I need to add soon.
You're truly building a great product.

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Ben

Russel

If you're needing a webscaper, for your latest project,
you can't go far wrong with MrScraper. Really clean,
intuitive UI. Easy to create queries. Great support.
Free option, for small jobs. Subscriptions for
larger volumes.

avatar

John Madrak

Founder, Waddling Technology

We're able to quickly and painlessly create automated
scrapers across a variety of sites without worrying about
getting blocked (loading JS, rotating proxies, etc.),
scheduling, or scaling up when we want more data
- all we need to do is open the site that we want to
scrape in devtools, find the elements that we want to
extract, and MrScraper takes care of the rest! Plus, since
MrScraper's pricing is based on the size of the data that
we're extracting it's quite cheap in comparison to most
other services. I definitely recommend checking out
MrScraper if you want to take the complexity
out of scraping.

avatar

Kim Moser

Computer consultant

Now that I've finally set-up and tested my first scraper,
I'm really impressed. It was much easier to set up than I
would have guessed, and specifying a selector made it
dead simple. Results worked out of the box, on a site
that is super touch about being scraped.

avatar

John

MrScraper User

I actually never expected us to be making this many
requests per month but MrScraper is so easy that we've
been increasing the amount of data we're collecting -
I have a few more scrapers that I need to add soon.
You're truly building a great product.

avatar

Ben

Russel

If you're needing a webscaper, for your latest project,
you can't go far wrong with MrScraper. Really clean,
intuitive UI. Easy to create queries. Great support.
Free option, for small jobs. Subscriptions for
larger volumes.