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Scraping for E-Commerce: Why Rotating Proxies Are a Must

Posted By ivanpw 1245 days ago on Business

http://www.smbceo.com - E-commerce websites are a hub of information, info about pricing, available products, and the stock that a retailer has, etc. To competing vendors, this information is vital. Thus, web scraping tools exist.

But e-commerce websites, having also recognized the importance of data stored in their servers, have come up with anti-scraping tools to thwart the extraction of data from their websites. The detection techniques constitute the main challenges of web scraping.
Challenges of Web Scraping
Anti-Scraping Tools
The anti-scraping tools work by detecting any IP address that makes multiple web requests. Since scraping mainly entails making numerous requests to obtain the requisite data, then the anti-scraping tools automatically flag the IP address behind this.…
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