Kipras Kalzanauskas

Proxy errors like 404, 407, or 503 can be frustrating roadblocks – but they’re also valuable clues. These HTTP status codes point to specific issues in the communication between your browser, proxy, and the target server. Whether it's a client-side misconfiguration or a server-side block, understanding these errors is the first step to resolving them. In this guide, we’ll break down the most common proxy errors and walk you through practical solutions to fix them fast.

YouTube handles over 3B searches every month, making it the world’s second-largest search engine. Tapping into that web data uncovers trending topics, competitor strategies, and content gaps you can exploit. However, extracting that information requires navigating YouTube’s sophisticated CAPTCHAs and technical hurdles. In this guide, you’ll learn some proven approaches on how to scrape YouTube search results at scale and choose the right method for your specific needs.

Here's a truth that'll save you countless hours of confusion: data mining and web scraping aren't the same thing, despite what half the internet seems to think. When comparing data mining and web scraping, you're looking at two distinct phases of the data pipeline that work together like a well-oiled machine. In this article, we'll clarify the data mining vs. web scraping debate, explain how they complement each other, and outline workflows, use cases, tools, and best practices you should follow.

Web scraping used to mean extracting data with CSS selectors, and then rebuilding your scraper every time a target changes its layout. Here's the good news: ScrapeGraph AI takes a new approach as it uses LLMs to extract data from websites based on meaning, so you can describe what you need in natural language while the library handles the rest for you. In this guide, you'll learn how ScrapeGraph AI works and how to configure it to export structured datasets in the right formats. The tools we'll use are Python, ScrapeGraph AI, and Decodo proxies.

If you've ever encountered a message stating that you're being rate-limited by Cloudflare, you've likely hit error 1015. It typically occurs when a site detects an excessive number of requests coming from your browser or IP address within a short period. Whether you're a developer running scripts, a data analyst scraping public info, or just refreshing a page too often, this error can cut you off fast. In this guide, we'll break down what causes Error 1015, how to fix it, and what you can do to keep it from showing up again.

A proxy server sits between your device and the internet and routes your traffic through an intermediary IP. It's core infrastructure for privacy, access control, and large-scale data operations. If you need to locate your proxy address and port, to set up a scraper, debug a failed connection, or audit your network, you'll want to know exactly where each platform stores these details. This guide covers every major OS, browser, and device, step by step.

Have you ever noticed how certain people consistently collect online votes for Facebook competitions, YouTube videos, online lotteries, and contests? These individuals always seem to gather the most likes, shares, and retweets, but what is their approach? The short answer is a vote bot paired with a proxy network. The reality, however, is more nuanced than simply running a basic automated script, so let's take a closer look.

You might face the IP ban hammer or get your actions restricted when crossing the gray area of Instagram. Although you can reach the customer support team, they are not always willing to lift the ban. Luckily, there’s a solution. Use residential proxies to change your IP address, and you’re free to continue scrolling the feed without any interruptions.

While watching videos on YouTube, nothing kills the mood faster than an error screen when you're trying to open the app or watch your favorite channel. One of the most common issues users run into is the YouTube server error 400. In this article, we'll explore why this error occurs and, more importantly, how you can resolve it quickly so you can get back to watching without interruptions.

On a recent run, wired.com ranked no. 1 on US desktop and no. 2 on UK desktop computers for "best laptop 2026". Same query, same hour, different country. That gap is what a single-number rank tracker misses, especially now that modern SERPs add AI Overview citations, featured snippets, and "People also ask" blocks that most older tracking tools ignore. This post walks through building a tracker that captures all of it, starting with a manual baseline for ground truth, then moving to a Python implementation against a SERP API, and finally setting up a scaling path for more keywords and locations.

A news crawler is a tool that automatically pulls content from news websites. A web news crawler helps with tracking competitors, feeding LLM pipelines, or watching topic coverage across publishers. This guide walks you through building a configurable proxy-integrated Python news crawler that’ll target multiple news sources, handles proxy rotation, and saves structured results on a schedule.

Golang Colly is a fast, callback-driven scraping framework for the Go programming language. It wraps HTTP requests, HTML parsing, rate limiting, and concurrency in a clean API, so you can pull structured data from a website with very little code. This tutorial walks you through building a working Colly scraper from an empty project all the way to proxy rotation.

Thanks to blending Java’s massive ecosystem with a scripting-friendly syntax, Groovy works as a practical alternative for web scraping on the JVM. This guide shows you how to scrape websites with the HTTP Jodd client, parse HTML documents, manage sessions, utilize Jodd Lagarto and Jerry, and use Selenium to automate browsers. You'll also learn how to configure proxies for real-world, block-resistant scraping.

Google Flights is a rich source of crucial flight information, such as prices, airlines, times, stops, durations, and emissions, but scraping this information has never been easy. The flight search engine hides valuable data behind JavaScript-heavy pages and anti-bot protections. This guide explains how to scrape Google Flights using Python by building a browser-based scraper powered by Playwright.

Scala web scraping fits naturally into JVM data pipelines, sharing types and libraries with your Spark, Akka, and Kafka code. This guide covers everything you need to ship a production scraper: environment setup, library selection, pagination, JavaScript rendering, anti-bot mitigation, and structured data export. Including when a managed scraping API is the smarter call.

While using Google Trends, you can discover the search interest rates for specific keywords during specific time frames in specific regions and analyze the popularity of Search keywords over time. This makes it possible to see how popular a topic is over time and across regions, without exposing sensitive search data. In this guide, we'll explain the kinds of data available from Google Trends, compare scraping techniques, and demonstrate two methods of gathering Google Trends data.

Building reliable web scrapers can get complex and difficult to maintain, but Crawlee aims to simplify the process. As project needs grow, developers often encounter challenges that require multiple tools and configurations. Crawlee eliminates the need to build these configurations from scratch or migrate to a different tool mid-crawl, allowing you to focus on your scraping logic instead. In this guide, you'll learn how to scrape using Crawlee's 3 main crawler classes. We'll also explore the routing architecture, proxy integration with Decodo, and data storage.

Traditional proxies hide your IP, but struggle against anti-bot systems like Cloudflare, DataDome, and Akamai. Webmaster unblockers, also known as Site Unblockers, are managed request layers that take a URL and return rendered HTML. This guide explains how they work, when to pick 1 over a proxy or Web Scraping API, and which 5 tools stand out in 2026.