How to Effectively Use User Agents for Web Scraping
In this article, we’ll take a look at the User-Agent header, what it is and how to use it in web scraping. We'll also generate and rotate user agents to avoid web scraping blocking.
HTTPS is an encrypted version of the HTTP protocol. It implements end-to-end encryption between the client and the web server.
When web scraping public data we don't care much about the security of the connection though we do care about preventing our scraper from being blocked and HTTPS can play a major role in that.
HTTPS is susceptible to TLS fingerprinting (known as JA3 Fingerprint) which is used to detect web scrapers.
So, scraping HTTPS endpoints is more difficult than scraping HTTP endpoints and if possible, scrapers perform much better when scraping the unsecured HTTP websites.
In this article, we’ll take a look at the User-Agent header, what it is and how to use it in web scraping. We'll also generate and rotate user agents to avoid web scraping blocking.
Localization allows for adapting websites content by changing language and currency. So, how do we scrape it? We'll take a look at the most common methods for changing language, currency and other locality details in web scraping.
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