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Today, Phantomjs is superseded by a new set of tools that are more reliable, faster and easier to work with: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.
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