Proxy

7 best proxy scraper services in 2022

Finding the right proxy for your use case can be a real challenge. Proxy scraping tools take this burden off you by extracting and testing IP addresses from free proxy lists available online.

6 min read Jul 5, 2022

Tutorial

How to scrape free proxy lists and find working proxies

Matt Stephens

Get a dynamic list of usable proxies. Proxy Scraper will automatically test and output working public proxies from 17 free proxy websites and APIs.

5 min read Mar 1, 2022

Proxy

4 ways to authenticate a proxy in Puppeteer with Headless Chrome in 2022

Matt Stephens

Quick guide to 4 different fast and effective (and very simple) ways to help you authenticate your proxy in Puppeteer with Headless Chrome.

5 min read Feb 18, 2022

Proxy

What are the different types of proxies?

Dávid Lukáč

What’s the difference between a residential and datacenter proxy, or a forward and reverse proxy? Learn all about the various types of proxies and how you can differentiate them based on location of IP address, direction of traffic flow, service, and level of anonymity.

5 min read Feb 8, 2022

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How anti-scraping protections work and how they get bypassed

Percival Villalva

Websites have protections to stop malicious bots. But not all bots are created equal. Find out about the methods used to avoid being blocked while scraping the web legally and ethically.

9 min read Feb 1, 2022

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How do proxies affect digital freedom?

Mariachiara Faraon

Proxies and VPNs can affect internet transparency in many ways. They can unlock geo-restricted content, prevent discrimination, and grant digital freedom under oppressive regimes. Learn more about online openness and censorship.

5 min read Jan 26, 2022

Proxy

What is a proxy server?

Mariachiara Faraon, Theo Vasilis, Dávid Lukáč

Find out everything you need to learn about proxies, what they are, how they work, how to get one, and how Apify Proxy can help, with this quick guide to proxy servers.

5 min read Jan 19, 2022

Tutorial

Tunneling arbitrary protocols over HTTP proxy with static IP address in Node.js

Jarda Hejlek

How to connect from a Node.js application running on a server with a random IP address to an external service protected by a firewall. Learn how to connect from a Node.js application running on a server with a random IP address to an external service protected by a firewall that only allows access

5 min read May 2, 2021

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Bypassing web scraping protection: get the most out of your proxies with shared IP address emulation

Petr Pátek

Learn about modern web scraping protection techniques and how to bypass them. Scrape up to three times more pages by combining IP address rotation with shared IP address emulation.

3 min read Aug 13, 2020

Tutorial

Using a man-in-the-middle proxy to scrape data from a mobile app API

Petr Pátek

In this technical post, you’ll learn how to set up a man-in-the-middle proxy and install a self-signed certificate on your mobile phone in order to intercept HTTPS communication between any mobile app and its backend API.

6 min read Jul 25, 2019

Apify Updates

Launching Apify Proxy

Jan Čurn

The new HTTP proxy endpoint provides access to Apify’s large pool of proxies, with intelligent IP address rotation and health checks.

3 min read Jun 6, 2018

Tutorial

How to make headless Chrome and Puppeteer use a proxy server with authentication

Jan Čurn

We have released a new open-source package called proxy-chain on NPM to enable running headless Chrome and Puppeteer over a proxy server that requires authentication.

3 min read Dec 29, 2017