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How A Web Scraping Proxy Network Can Help You Mine Data

Internet is a global village. Today every one is using internet either in homes, offices  schools, colleges or universities. It has become a fundamental part of our life if we talk about getting information from worldwide sources, processing large data works into seconds, playing games etc. One can get any sort of information, one needs from internet. It can be an image, a file (either audio or video), a document, a software etc. But here the problem arises of getting our desired information from the whole set of data available on internet. Yes, its difficult. Consider an example, you are a rose lover and you are going to search it in a garden full of different flowers of different species and different genus. Moreover, roses also have different colours and shades. So how do you find the one, you want? Same happens with internet, which is a huge collection of data related to each and every niche, but the thing that matters, is how to get our desired data.

·       What is data mining?

Data mining is the process of getting useful information from a large set of data. Actually it’s the process  of analysing large sets of data to get hidden, required and useful facts from it.  Data mining is a critical process because it leads to decision making, forecasting and planning. It has many benefits like saving time and cost reduction, etc.

·       Web scrapping

Web scrapping is a process of extraction of relevant and useful data from a website. It’s also known as “web harvesting” or “web data extraction”.  It can be done by web scrapping software, proxy or application. It plays a very important role in market analysis and business development.

·       Why web scrapping is so important?

Web scrapping play a vital role when you have to deal with large sets of data. For example, there are many websites that contain data in a form, that you can’t copy or you just don’t  want to have it, in the format, the website carries. So here you seek help from web scrapping which not only allow you to extract data but also change its format.

·       What is Web scrapping proxy?

A proxy server is another computer which act as a bridge between you and rest of the internet. An IP address is a specific sequence of numbers which acts like a tag of the device while using internet and helps to locate you. A proxy server enables you to use its IP address in a network. It receives and processes internet applications. It plays a central role in a network by redirecting Web browsing activities of a client to a real server.

It is very useful because it prevents data loss, and data hacking when someone invades in a private network.

With reference to proxy, they are different IPs

1.       Data center IPs:

These are the cheapest and easiest to buy, since these are the IP addresses of servers located in Data centers. The most practical choice for your web scraping activities is to use datacenter IPs.

Residential IPs:

These are IPs of residential servers, enabling you to  browse through residential IP address. These are more expensive and legally more complicated

2.       Mobile devices IPs:

Mobile devices IPs are difficult to obtain, so they are more expensive. They are not recommended until and unless someone is looking for the scraped data vuew available to mobile users.

·       Why you need a proxy?

A person needs a proxy to get access to several websites

o   If he or she want to mask his IP address and location.

o   Prevent his/her IP address from being blocked.

o   They help you bypass limit set by target sites.

 ·       How does web scrapping proxies really work?

Web scrapping proxies help the users by giving them, another IP address through which they can extract data they want without showing their source device. But this process includes two hurdles.

1.       IP BLOCKING

Some websites don’t let some users to get their data and block their IPs. Once IP blocked, then you can never get access to the data on the target site.

The best web scrapping proxy is most probably the residential one because it cannot be blocked because  it does not contain sub networks.

2.       IP CLOAKING

Some sites, provide faulty data in order to prevent their data from scraping. This a far more damaging phenomenon.

Data center proxies can be easily cloaked without even being into users account.

·       Web scraping uses:

Web scraping can be used for

Ø  Content scraping

Ø  Data mining

Ø  Price comparison

Ø  Weather monitoring

Ø  Contact scraping

Ø  Research purposes

·       Importance of unlimited web scrapping proxy.

One cannot access a web site as many times as he wants. If you requests 1000 times to access a network, then the chances of IP blocking are doubled. This problem can be solved by

Back connect proxy network which contains residential computers. The chances of IP blocking are reduced because

Ø  At every access request, there is a new proxy every time.

Ø  Every device is a real and unique device.

Ø  It’s easy to use.

·       Deciding  the right proxy

        In terms of deciding  the right proxy servers to use, there are really two main factors to consider:

Ø  Whether you want exclusive access to the server.

Ø  What protocol you’d like to connect to the proxy over.

Ø  Know about your budget and resources.

 ·       How to manage your proxy pool:

In order to manage proxies, one should get the now and how of the following:

o   Retry errors

o   Geographical targeting

o   Identification of bans

 ·       Legal issues:

While using these web scrapping proxies, although it’s  legal but still have some considerations like

 With the ability to make a huge volume of requests to a website without the website being easily able to identify you, people usually overload a website’s servers with too many requests. A scraper should always respect the website, he is scraping.

·       Pros of Web scrapping proxies in data mining:

Pros of web scraping in data mining are:

v  Accuracy

v  Conciseness

v  Time saving

v  Data management.