How to Set up Residential Proxies for Octoparse

Learn how to set up residential proxies on Octoparse.

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Octoparse integration:

1. Open the Octoparse application.

2. In the top-left menu, click on the Create Task button. If you have a task created already, skip to step 5 of this tutorial.

Navigation menu showing Dashboard highlighted and red arrow pointing to top icon on blue background

3. For testing purposes, we are going to create a custom task. In the selection menu, click on the Advanced Mode.

Dropdown menu highlighting Advanced Mode with red arrow; Wizard Mode, Task Templates, Create a new group on blue background

4. In the Website field type the website you would like to extract data from. For this test, we are going to use ip.decodo.com. Once you do that, hit the Save URL button.

URL input box showing 'ip.smartproxy.com' and 'Save URL' button in task creation UI (Task group: MyGroup, Input URL tab)

5. You should now appear in your Task tab. To configure our proxies, select the Setting button.

Setting button highlighted above 'Go To Web Page' action box in editor with 'Save' and 'Start extraction'

6. In the pop-up menu, scroll down to Anti-blocking settings and checkmark the option to Use IP proxies. You should now be able to click on the Settings button.

Anti-blocking settings showing Use IP proxies; Auto switch browser (User agent); Auto clear cookies; Custom interval 0.5 minute(s)

7. In the Proxy Settings pop-up, define the proxy you would like to use. Unfortunately, Octoparse only offers IP:PORT based format to authenticate through a proxy network. For that particular reason, you will need to use our Whitelisted IP feature in order to skip the traditional username:password authentication when going through a proxy.

nslookup gate.smartproxy.com output with IPs, over Proxy Settings dialog showing IP Proxies field

8. Once you have your IP:PORT ready, select the Switch interval accordingly to your session type. If you are using a rotating session type, set the interval to 1, if you are using a sticky session, set it to 600. Lastly, hit the OK button.

Proxy Settings dialog displaying 'Switch interval 1 seconds' and IP Proxies entry 95.216.50.111:7000 in a light UI

9. To verify if you did everything correctly, check if you are seeing a checkmark next to the Settings option under Anti-blocking settings. Once you verify that, click the Save button to continue.

Blue 'Save' button highlighted with red arrow on settings showing 'Use IP proxies' checked and 'Settings' link

10. To extract data from our example page, click on the IP address which you can see at the bottom of the Octoparse application and select Extract text of the selected element.

IP address 185.132.133.130 pointed to by red arrow on pale green page with 'Action Tips' panel showing 'Extract text of the selected element'

11. Once that is done, click on the Save and Run hyperlink.

Action Tips panel showing Field Saved and highlighted Save and Run link above IP_addr... field

12. Depending on how you want to run your task, select one of the available extraction options. For testing purposes, you can use Local extraction.

Run Task dialog showing "Local extraction" button (red arrow), "Cloud extraction", and "Set a schedule" options

13. If done correctly, after task finishes running you should see our proxy IP in the extracted data table.

Extraction completed! showing Total time spent 18sec, Data extracted Total 1 lines on scraping UI with Export Data

See? It's effortless to pair these two! And the outcome is divine: a headache-free web data extraction for all your needs. From price monitoring, lead generation, and marketing to research – you can do it all.

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