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Master Advanced Anti-Ban & Web Scraping Techniques

Talkat Ubuntu Summit 2024 · 2024-10-25..10-27· [security]
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Workshop demonstrates concrete steps to scrape a TripAdvisor‑like site through six escalating defenses and ends with a working bypass: running Scrapy spiders that export CSVs, switching to Playwright browser farms to execute JavaScript and collect 100+ browser signals, aligning time zone and UA to match proxy geolocation, using a Scrapoxy proxy waterfall (Smartproxy connectors) to rotate ISP/residential IPs, deobfuscating RSA‑encrypted payloads to reproduce the server fingerprint, and successfully retrieving 50 reviews per challenge.

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  1. 0:00Advanced web scraping intro
  2. 3:00Scraping workshop setup
  3. 17:32Bypass basic anti-bot with user agents
  4. 28:00Proxies for IP rate limiting
  5. 59:29Execute JS to bypass fingerprinting
  6. 1:12:11Align browser signals for checks
  7. 1:19:30Deobfuscate anti-bot payloads
  8. 1:29:15Q&A
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