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Live-Coding: Become a Web Scraping Ninja with Scrapoxy!

TalkinFrenchat DevFest Toulouse 2024 · on Thursday, 2024-11-07· [security]
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Hands-on live-coding session demonstrating legal web-scraping techniques using Scrapoxy (an open-source proxy aggregator) and Playwright for browser automation. Covers bypassing anti-bot protections and fingerprints, reverse-engineering tracking mechanisms, and managing proxies/browser farms to collect data for feeding AI models.

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  1. 0:00Web scraping intro
  2. 3:17Target site and goals
  3. 8:34Basic protections
  4. 11:45Proxies to avoid blocks
  5. 16:01Scrapoxy and orchestration
  6. 19:55Advanced protections
  7. 22:24AntiBot bypass
  8. 26:19Playwright with Scrapy
  9. 29:14Deobfuscating AntiBot JS
  10. 36:22Techniques summary and demo
  11. 36:42Q&A
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