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rustdeveloper

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    Comment #42966617

    Happy to suggest another web scraping API alternative I rely on: https://scrapingfish.com

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    Comment #42676455

    Interesting data for sugar in products scraped from Walmart: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/scraping-walmart

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    Comment #42488491

    This is correct, my friends from Scraping Fish are hosting https://compareproxy.com to help people find proxy for web scraping. I'm happy to "push" for Scraping Fish as I'm also a …

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    Comment #42470392

    And many more: https://compareproxy.com/

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    Comment #41841029

    For web scraping at scale you want to get lost in the crowd. This usually means being (or pretending to be) chromium on windows. Unusual browsers are suspicious, detected or have v…

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    Comment #41645850

    This is a terrible news :( I know it was an option for web scraping and I used in once. I’m curious what is the real reason they took it down.

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    Comment #41623686

    Surprisingly, according to you tool, HN is neutral on “web scraping”. I noticed others also reported bias for neutral on other keywords.

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    Comment #41615941

    There are also SaaS products with usage based pricing. It depends on what SaaS or software or product it is. Different pricing model works for different things.

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    Comment #41615896

    Actually, they do allow this. I store my photos and iPhone backup on synology NAS. You just have to devote some time to set it up yourself.

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    Comment #41594500

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    Comment #39444594

    I'm using Scraping Fish because of their pay-as-you-go style pricing as opposed to subscription with monthly scraping volume commitment. And they don't charge extra credits for JS …

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    Comment #37897353

    This reminds me of https://scrapingfish.com/blog/are-most-rust-jobs-in-crypto :)

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    Comment #36389309

    Do we know how LLMs available in OpenLLM and other open source LLMs compare to different versions of GPT models? I know there’s a leaderboard on huggingface: https://huggingface.co…

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    Comment #35710123

    Does it give access to the internet? Could it be used with this setup: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap... ?

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    Comment #35589760

    For $20 you can get over 10k requests from scraping fish: https://scrapingfish.com/buy

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    Comment #35307170

    I don’t see how any LLM would help me with a high quality proxy, which is what I actually need in web scraping and I’m using https://scrapingfish.com/ for this.

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    Comment #34476107

    There are tutorials for building you own mobile proxy pool so it’s very accessible these days: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...

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    Comment #34230214

    I'll be working on my own mobile proxy build: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...

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    Comment #34166880

    I initially built a system for web scraping but was constantly running into issues of getting blocked, even when using good quality residential proxies. I had to constantly investi…

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    Comment #32497568

    This looks really cool! There was a tutorial posted on HN about building mobile proxy pool with RPI that had obvious limitations: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for…

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    Comment #32457706

    For web scraping, I recommend using a web scraping API, e.g. https://scrapingfish.com . This solves all potential problems with getting blocked and can make data extraction easier …

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    Comment #32413664

    I use Scraping Fish API: https://scrapingfish.com/

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    Comment #32013673

    “This industry makes scraping available to individuals and companies that otherwise would not have the capabilities.” - seems like web scraping companies are doing a good job :)

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    Comment #31905234

    Looks interesting. Will try the script for web scraping.