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Robert Munceanu is a Full Stack Developer at WebScrapingAPI, contributing across the product and helping build reliable tools and features that support the platform.
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TL;DR: Bad proxies are expensive. They burn bandwidth, trigger bans, and silently corrupt the data your scrapers depend on. This guide shows how to test proxies across five health signals (connectivity, exit IP, speed, anonymity, and reputation) using ping, curl, online checkers, IP databases, and a reusable Python script you can drop into your CI pipeline.
TL;DR: Choose an extractor for articles across varied layouts or precise template rules, then test text fidelity, metadata, structure, and failure handling on your own corpus.
TL;DR: Distinguish five common API approaches without mixing architecture, protocols, and delivery patterns. Compare their contracts using one practical catalog scenario.
TL;DR: The best free proxy lists for web scraping are ProxyScrape's list for scripts, Geonode's for uptime and ASN filters, and monosans/proxy-list on GitHub for plain-text pipeline feeds. Treat every list as a pool of candidates, because only a small share of listed proxies work on any given day, and never send logins or payment pages through a free proxy.
TL;DR: Web scraping is now an integral part of the real estate industry. Both agents and regular folks gain much from scrapers. Here's how you do it:
TL;DR: Turn sitemap indexes into a traceable URL discovery queue. Learn namespace-aware parsing, protocol limits, freshness caveats, and safe boundaries for untrusted URLs.
TL;DR: Follow a fictional catalog request from documentation to a validated record. Understand endpoints, response fields, authentication, pagination, and failures before scaling.
TL;DR: Build a company-data pipeline that produces trustworthy account records, with source evidence, domain matching, explainable qualification, and controlled CRM exports.
TL;DR: The best proxies for web scraping are the cheapest ones your target accepts. Use datacenter for open sites at volume, ISP to hold one IP through logged-in or multi-step flows, residential for stricter sites and city-level targeting, and mobile for mobile-first targets. Choose the type by job first, then compare providers on cost per successful request, not price per GB.
TL;DR: To use WebScrapingAPI's Scraper API, send a GET request to https://api.webscrapingapi.com/v2 with your api_key and a URL-encoded url, then read the page from the response. Use it when you already know which URLs you need; pick the SERP API for search results, the Browser API for clicks and waits, and Web MCP to connect AI agents. This guide also covers rendering, errors, and costs.
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