Guides

Practical how-to tutorials for proxies and web scraping. Set up datacenter proxies on Windows or Mac, rotate them in Python, connect Selenium, and avoid blocks.

How to Handle Cookies and Sessions When Web Scraping

Handle cookies and sessions when web scraping: cookie jars, Set-Cookie parsing, CSRF tokens, login state, disk persistence, and sticky proxy IPs, in Python.

SparkProxy·Aug 8, 2026Guides

Async Web Scraping in Python: A Concurrency Guide

Master async web scraping in Python with asyncio, httpx and aiohttp: bound concurrency with semaphores, size connection pools, and isolate failures.

SparkProxy·Aug 8, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Google News: RSS, Headlines, and Feeds

Scrape Google News with its free RSS feeds: pull headlines and articles, decode the redirected article links, and geo-target editions with hl, gl, and ceid.

SparkProxy·Aug 8, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Craigslist Listings

Learn how to scrape Craigslist listings across city subdomains: search results, categories, and posting details, plus the RSS trick and rate-limit fixes.

SparkProxy·Aug 8, 2026Guides

How to Scrape LinkedIn Data (Public Data Only)

Scrape LinkedIn data the defensible way: pull public company pages and job posts with proxies, clear the authwall and HTTP 999, and stay inside ToS and GDPR.

SparkProxy·Aug 8, 2026Guides

Web Scraping With Go and Colly: Proxies and Rotation

Web scraping with Go and Colly, end to end: build a collector, extract with OnHTML, follow links to crawl, rotate proxies, and control concurrency safely.

SparkProxy·Aug 7, 2026Guides

How to Bypass hCaptcha When Web Scraping

Bypass hCaptcha when web scraping the ethical way: how the h-captcha-response token and siteverify flow work, why plain clients fail, and solvers last.

SparkProxy·Aug 7, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Zillow Data: Listings, Prices, Zestimate

Learn how to scrape Zillow data: pull listings, prices, the Zestimate, and property details from Zillow's hidden JSON API, and beat its anti-bot defenses.

SparkProxy·Aug 7, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Twitter/X Data (Public Data Only)

Scrape Twitter data without getting blocked: pull public tweets, profiles, and search via the X API or the no-login syndication endpoint, and dodge legal traps.

SparkProxy·Aug 7, 2026Guides

How to Schedule Web Scrapers: cron to Airflow

Learn how to schedule web scrapers at any scale, from cron and systemd timers to Airflow DAGs, with idempotent runs, retries, jitter, and proxy config.

SparkProxy·Aug 6, 2026Guides

How to Use a Docker Proxy: Daemon, Build, Runtime

Set up a Docker proxy at all three layers: daemon pulls, build-time ARGs, and runtime app env, with real Dockerfile, compose, and scraper code you can copy.

SparkProxy·Aug 6, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Target Product Data

Learn how to scrape Target data from the RedSky JSON API: price, TCIN, ratings, store-level availability, plus Akamai anti-bot handling and working code.

SparkProxy·Aug 6, 2026Guides

Perl Web Scraping With Proxies: LWP and Mojo Guide

Perl web scraping with proxies using LWP::UserAgent and Mojo::UserAgent. Real code for proxy rotation, auth, HTML parsing, and the SparkProxy Scraping API.

SparkProxy·Aug 6, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Infinite Scroll and Load-More Pages

Learn to scrape infinite scroll and load-more pages two ways: drive a headless browser to scroll, or call the hidden JSON API behind it. Real code inside.

SparkProxy·Aug 5, 2026Guides

How to Bypass Cloudflare Turnstile When Web Scraping

Learn to bypass Cloudflare Turnstile for scraping public data: how the cf-turnstile-response token and siteverify flow work, plus prevention and clean code.

SparkProxy·Aug 5, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Pinterest Data: Pins, Boards, Search

Learn how to scrape Pinterest data ethically: pull pins, boards, saves, and search results from Pinterest's JSON resource endpoints with working Python code.

SparkProxy·Aug 5, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Glassdoor Reviews and Salary Data

Learn how to scrape Glassdoor reviews and salary data: pull ratings, pros, cons, and pay by title, clear the login wall and anti-bot, and stay GDPR-safe.

SparkProxy·Aug 4, 2026Guides

How to Extract Data from PDF Files at Scale

Extract data from PDF files at scale: download PDFs behind sites with proxies, tell text from scanned, parse tables with camelot and pdfplumber, plus OCR.

SparkProxy·Aug 4, 2026Guides

How to Scrape Airbnb Listings and Prices

Learn how to scrape Airbnb listings and prices: extract fields from Airbnb's embedded JSON, handle date-based pricing, map pagination, and anti-bot defenses.

SparkProxy·Aug 3, 2026Guides

How to Scrape GraphQL APIs

Learn to scrape GraphQL API data: find the /graphql endpoint, read the query and variables in DevTools, then replay your own queries with cursor pagination.

SparkProxy·Aug 3, 2026Guides

How to Bypass reCAPTCHA When Web Scraping

How to bypass reCAPTCHA when web scraping the ethical way: how v2 and v3 scoring work, how to raise your reCAPTCHA score, and solvers as a last resort.

SparkProxy·Aug 3, 2026Guides

Elixir Web Scraping With Proxies: A Practical Guide

Elixir web scraping with proxies: real code for Req, Finch, and HTTPoison proxy config, Floki parsing, Crawly, Task.async_stream, and the SparkProxy API.

SparkProxy·Aug 3, 2026Guides

How to Scrape GitHub Data (Repos, Users, Stars)

Learn how to scrape GitHub data the right way: the official REST and GraphQL API, key repo and user fields, pagination, rate limits, and proxy-safe code.

SparkProxy·Aug 3, 2026Guides

How to Store Scraped Data: Files, DBs, and Pipelines

Store scraped data the right way: pick CSV, JSON, SQLite, Postgres, or Parquet, design a schema, dedupe with content hashing, and upsert without duplicates.

SparkProxy·Aug 2, 2026Guides