Scraper API Review 2023. Scraper API – Overview
Scraper API Review 2023. Scraper API – Overview
Scraper API is one of the best proxy APIs to ensure you can use the proxy easily without making it look like you are using the proxy.
It doesn’t only provide proxies but is an excellent way of avoiding and passing through CAPTCHA on websites.
It has automated IP rotation, so you can easily access the geo-restricted data without worrying about IP-related security issues.
It has JavaScript rendering available to ensure you don’t have to use headless browsers, and the users can easily scrape over 100 million websites or pages.
In addition, it can handle concurrent threads to ensure easier web scraping.
Scraper API also retries scraping with multiple headers and IPs to achieve the 200 status code (this status code indicates successful scraping).
In simpler words, you don’t need to worry about fetching the web pages, so you don’t have to handle the browser restrictions and proxies.
With Scraper API, all you’ve to do is to process the data – you can start with data parsing from the web pages after sending the request.
For this purpose, you have to send the API request.
It has a huge pool of locations and IP addresses for routing the requests. It offers unlimited bandwidth usage and works pretty efficiently.
The API platform is extremely reliable, easy to use, scalable, and customizable. In addition, this Scraper API review also includes information about the features, such as;
1. Extensive Proxy Pool & Promising Location Support
With the basic plan, ScraperAPI utilizes proxies to help users route the requests and avoid IP-based or location-based restrictions.
It’s not certain how many IP addresses are available in the proxy pool, but it can easily cater to businesses and individual clients.
According to Scraper API, it has more than 40 million IP addresses from around the globe, which makes it the biggest proxy pool.
Scraper API likely depends on P2P for extracting the IP addresses – most IP addresses are residential and are collected from fifty locations around the globe.
In addition, the users have the choice to select the IP address from the desired locations to access the geo-restricted or geo-targeted content.
2. Customization Features
It’s common for proxy APIs to be rigid, especially concerning request configuration.
On the other hand, Scraper API review that it has a default configuration for a time-efficient and convenient function, but you can also customize the configuration.
For instance, the users can select how and from where the IP requests will be sent.
Scraper API enables the users to to parse data from well-known websites. It allows the users to select between various sticky proxies and rotating proxies .
In addition, you can select a location while sending the requests, and you can customize the request headers as well.
It allows the users to choose if JavaScript should be rendered or not.
In fact, automated parsing is available for selective websites – the data is parsed in the HTML form while it’s returned in JSON files.
However, the data parsing is only available for Google Shopping, Google Search , and Amazon .
To enable parsing, you need to add the command “autoparse=true” in the IP request, and the data will be parsed.
The users can easily customize the headers, which means the website won’t be able to differentiate your activity from the regular browsing activity.
In addition, you won’t be charged anything for the bandwidth (you will be charged according to the number of requests you send).
The servers are extremely fast and have a speed of over 100Mbps.
Scraper API shows a header management system in the API, which helps increase the performance and success rates of website scraping.
API scraping. A brief introduction to APIs ¶
In this section, we will take a look at an alternative way to gather data than the previous pattern based HTML scraping. Sometimes websites offer an API (or Application Programming Interface) as a service which provides a high level interface to directly retrieve data from their repositories or databases at the backend.
From Wikipedia,
" An API is typically defined as a set of specifications, such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request messages, along with a definition of the structure of response messages, usually in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. "
They typically tend to be URL endpoints (to be fired as requests) that need to be modified based on our requirements (what we desire in the response body) which then returns some a payload (data) within the response, formatted as either JSON, XML or HTML.
A popular web architecture style calledREST(or representational state transfer) allows users to interact with web services viaGETandPOSTcalls (two most commonly used) which we briefly saw in the previous section.
For example, Twitter's REST API allows developers to access core Twitter data and the Search API provides methods for developers to interact with Twitter Search and trends data.
There are primarily two ways to use APIs :
- Through the command terminal using URL endpoints, or
- Through programming language specific wrappers
For example,Tweepyis a famous python wrapper for Twitter API whereastwurlis a command line interface (CLI) tool but both can achieve the same outcomes.
Here we focus on the latter approach and will use a Python library (a wrapper) calledwptoolsbased around the original MediaWiki API.
One advantage of using official APIs is that they are usually compliant of the terms of service (ToS) of a particular service that researchers are looking to gather data from. However, third-party libraries or packages which claim to provide more throughput than the official APIs (rate limits, number of requests/sec) generally operate in a gray area as they tend to violate ToS. Always be sure to read their documentation throughly.
Scrapgram. Meet Anna Maria (Scrapgram) 27 comments Pin It
She's been married for over 40 years to husband Carlos, an avid Dodgers fan and our resident Bingo host. Find out more about Anna Maria.
How long have you been scrapbooking and how did you get started?
I have been scrapping for about 8 years now. However, in the early days my scrapping consisted of photos and stickers. Now, I do add more embellishments, but I still keep the simple look. I love the way some girls can use tons of embellishments and their pages look so great. But when
I try it just does not look like something I would want anyone to see.
Tell us about your family life.
I will try to keep this as brief as possible. I have been married to my wonderful husband, Carlos for 41 years. We have 3 wonderful children, Dolores is 40, Carlos Jr. Is 38 and my baby, David is 34. I think most of the girls here know my story, but I will tell you some of it. My daughter had 5 children, her first born and our first grandbaby was Nicole. Nicole was born in 1986 and passed away in 1992. When she was two years old they discovered that she had brain stem glioma(a cancerous brain tumor). After a 2 ½ battle with this, Nicole passed away. She lives in my heart forever, she was such a special little girl. Even though she was the one sick, she always tried to lift our spirits. I miss her and love her more and more each day. I thought I knew what love was but only after my little Nicole went to Jesus did I truly know what it meant to love someone so completely. My daughter then had a boy several years later. His name is Joseph and he is such a great and special young man(he is 12 now). Then Dolores had a set of twins(boy & girl). When they were 3 months old we lost Daniel to crib death. Our beautiful Rebekah is now 9. She has Asperger's Syndrome. She is very intellegent and so loveable, she has a photografic mind, she remembers everything. Then another grandson came into our lives, Luke who is now 7.
My son Carlos Jr has 2 boys of his own, Stephen 20 and Benjamin 8. He also has 2 stepsons, Drew 22, & Christian 13 So he has his hands full. They are all really good boys.
My youngest son, David has a set of 4 year old twins. Erika Nicole and Devin Andrew They are so full of energy and life. We take care of them while their parents are at work and believe me by the time they get home hubby and I are exhausted But we love it. Hubby and I love spending as much time as possible with our kids and grandkids. We are avid Los Angeles Dodgers’ fans(just ask Jamie) I love to read, cook, sew, and of course scrapbook.
What inspires you in your scrapping?
I draw my inspiration from my family.
What do your friends and family think of your hobby?
Everyone is very supportive. They love when I make them special projects for holidays. They are in awe of some of the stuff I come up with(which of course I scraplift, hehehe)
What is a favorite layout that you've done and why do you like it so much?
I love this photograph of my grandaughter Rebekah because it shows who she really is. Rebekah was diganosed with Asperger’s Syndrome and has always marched to a different tune. She is beautiful both on the outside and inside. She loves our Lord and at her tender age she follows His word. So when I saw this photo I knew I had to make a layout of it. She truly is a remarkable little girl.
How did you find ACOT and how long have you been on the Message Boards?
Actually my daughter-in-law Paula told me about this site and I decided to check it out I have not left it ever since. It is the only company that I shop from.
What draws you to the Message Boards?
I just love hearing what everyone is up to and looking in the gallery.
Scrapgram. Meet Anna Maria (Scrapgram) 27 comments Pin It.
What is a favorite layout that you've done and why do you like it so much?
I love this photograph of my grandaughter Rebekah because it shows who she really is. Rebekah was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and has always marched to a different tune. She is beautiful both on the outside and inside. She loves our Lord and at her tender age she follows His word. So when I saw this photo I knew I had to make a layout of it. She truly is a remarkable little girl.
How did you find ACOT and how long have you been on the Message Boards?
Actually my daughter-in-law Paula told me about this site and I decided to check it out. I have not left it ever since. It is the only company that I shop from.
What draws you to the Message Boards?
I just love hearing what everyone is up to and looking in the gallery.
Do you have a favorite memory or event that came from being a member of the Board?
Besides making many friends and meeting so many girls here in person. I have met Jacysgrammie, Mabuglet, Backsthepack, TRScrapper, Tigerlily, and Vincentsmommy. I have also adopted several families. I love being grammy to their babies.