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.
cURL is a leading HTTP client tool that is used to create HTTP connections. It is powered by a popular C language library libcurl which implements most of the modern HTTP protocol. This includes the newest HTTP features and versions like HTTP3 and IPv6 support and all proxy features.
When it comes to web scraping cURL is the leading library for creating HTTP connections as it supports important features used in web scraping like:
It is used by many web scraping tools and libraries. Many popular HTTP libraries are using libcurl behind the scenes:
However, since cURL is written in C and is incredibly complicated it can be difficult to use in some languages so often loses out to native libraries (like httpx in Python).
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.
How IP addresses are used in web scraping blocking. Understanding IP metadata and fingerprinting techniques to avoid web scraper blocks.
