How to Use Tor For Web Scraping
In this article, we'll explain web scraping using Tor. For this, we'll use Tor as a proxy server to change the IP address randomly in either HTTP or SOCKS, as well as using it as a rotating proxy server.
PhantomJS is one of the first major browser automation toolkits. It's a headless browser manager that's often used to web scrape using real web browsers to avoid blocking and rendering javascript pages.
Today, Phantomjs is superseded by a new set of tools that are more reliable, faster and easier to work with:
Note that modern browser automation tools use CDP to communicate with the browser. Because of this, today there are many different tools like PhantomJS.
For more on web scraping using headless web browsers see our complete introduction which covers everything you need to know about this subject
In this article, we'll explain web scraping using Tor. For this, we'll use Tor as a proxy server to change the IP address randomly in either HTTP or SOCKS, as well as using it as a rotating proxy server.
In this article we'll take a look at two popular tools: WhatWaf and Wafw00f which can identify what WAF service is used.
In this guide, we'll explore web scraping with Selenium Wire. We'll define what it is, how to install it, and how to use it to inspect and manipulate background requests.