Use Proxy Server for Web Scraping

Octoparse
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
5 min readMar 31, 2022

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In recent years, big data has become the new gold and led the trends of data collection and data analysis. Web scraping or web data extraction has become a popular way for collecting web data. While being well recognized for its flexibility and adaptability, this new technology has helped many individuals and businesses to retrieve loads of data from nearly all websites or databases.

However, web scraping is not as welcome for website owners on the hand. It can increase heavy loads of traffic to the websites’ servers which can potentially crash the sites in the worst…

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