Next define a method get_proxy() that will be responsible for retrieving IP addresses for you to use. Today you'll be writing a script that chooses and rotates through proxies.įirst import the requests, BeautifulSoup, and choice libraries. In the case free proxies do fit your scrapping needs, here you can find a list of free proxies. In order to start rotating your IP addresses, you need a list of free proxies. In most cases, if your service relies on scraped data a free proxy will most likely not be enough. You can use free proxies found on the internet or commercial solutions. To rotate IP addresses, you first need to have a pool of IPs available. A rotating proxy is a proxy server that assigns a new IP address from the proxy pool for each connection.

The scraping cancel culture is real! So, to avoid being canceled, it's best to utilize rotating proxies. Remember how we said some developers use more than one proxy? Well, now you can too!Īnytime you find yourself scraping from a webpage repeatedly, it's good practice to use more than one proxy, because there's a good chance your scraper will get blocked, meaning your IP address will get banned.

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