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Zeid Abughazaleh on Oct 30, 2026Use a proxy in Node.js through an Undici `ProxyAgent`, an Axios `proxy` object, or `undici.request()` with a dispatcher. Keep credentials outside source code, set a timeout, and validate the returned data. Test the observed exit IP before running the client against its intended destination.
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Omar Rifai on Mar 14, 2025JSON and CSV are both text formats for exchanging data, but they model that data differently. JSON can preserve nested objects, arrays, booleans, numbers, and null values. CSV represents a flat table of rows and columns.
Read postOmar Rifai on Mar 4, 2025Octo Browser is a paid, Chromium-based antidetect browser for creating and managing isolated browser profiles. It combines profile storage, fingerprint settings, per-profile proxies, team controls, and API automation. This review explains what that means in practice, what the current plans actually include, and where a regular browser remains the better choice.
Read postOmar Rifai on Feb 21, 2025With over 40 million monthly active users, what is Signal and why is it considered as one of the most secure messaging apps and private messaging apps? It’s used by privacy advocates, activists, international NGOs, and more. Unlike many messaging apps and services that often prioritize profit over privacy, Signal messenger — developed by Open Whisper Systems — is built on open-source code, meaning its source code is publicly available for independent review. The Signal Foundation’s stated goal is “making private communication accessible, secure and ubiquitous”.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Feb 7, 2025There are three main ways to scrape PDF files. You could either write a script that will scrape PDF from a URL, scrape directly from a file path, or write a multifunctional scraper that can scrape whatever document you feed it through your terminal.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Jan 31, 2025To scrape YouTube videos with Python, use the official YouTube Data API when you need structured video metadata, comments, channel details, or search results. It is more stable than parsing YouTube's rendered pages and gives each field a documented meaning. Use a page extractor or a third-party tool such as yt-dlp only for a narrower requirement after confirming that YouTube has authorized that form of automated access.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Jan 30, 2025The Bluesky user count has surged past 43 million registered users as of early 2026, up from 25.9 million at the end of 2024. The platform added roughly 15.5 million users across 2025 alone, a 60% year-over-year increase confirmed by Bluesky’s own transparency report, and continues to pull in an estimated 1.6 million new users per month.
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Yazan Sharawi on Jan 24, 2025The best Python library for web scraping depends on which part of the job you need it to perform. Requests and HTTPX retrieve documents. Beautiful Soup, lxml, and selectolax parse HTML. Scrapy schedules and manages crawls. Playwright and Selenium control real browsers when JavaScript or interaction is necessary.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Jan 21, 2025Scrapy Playwright lets selected Scrapy requests load in a browser before Scrapy parses the rendered HTML. Install `scrapy-playwright`, register its download handler, and mark browser requests with `meta={"playwright": True}`. Use `PageMethod` for waits or interactions, while leaving static requests on Scrapy's ordinary downloader.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Jan 7, 2025Image scraping automates the entire process of collecting images online as you can collect thousands of images and save time while reducing mistakes. The process works well once you understand key elements like URL handling, file processing, and source code manipulation.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Dec 27, 2024Retries make Python HTTP clients more resilient to brief network and server failures—but retrying the wrong request can duplicate an action, intensify a rate limit, or waste several minutes on an error that will not change.
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