Scraping in Python - Preventing IP ban

Question

I am using Python to scrape pages. Until now I didn\'t have any complicated issues.

The site that I\'m trying to scrape uses a lot of security checks an

Answer 1

If you would switch to the Scrapy web-scraping framework, you would be able to reuse a number of things that were made to prevent and tackle banning:

• the built-in AutoThrottle extension:

This is an extension for automatically throttling crawling speed based on load of both the Scrapy server and the website you are crawling.

• rotating user agents with scrapy-fake-useragent middleware:

Use a random User-Agent provided by fake-useragent every request

• rotating IP addresses:

  • Setting Scrapy proxy middleware to rotate on each request
  • scrapy-proxies

• you can also run it via local proxy & TOR:

  • Scrapy: Run Using TOR and Multiple Agents

Answer 2

I had this problem too. I used urllib with tor in python3.

1. download and install tor browser
2. testing tor

open terminal and type:

curl --socks5-hostname localhost:9050 <http://site-that-blocked-you.com>

if you see result it's worked.

3. Now we should test in python. Now run this code

import socks
import socket
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

#set socks5 proxy to use tor

socks.set_default_proxy(socks.SOCKS5, "localhost", 9050)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket
req = Request('http://check.torproject.org', headers={'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0', })
html = urlopen(req).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
print(soup('title')[0].get_text())

if you see

Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor.

it worked in python too and this means you are using tor for web scraping.

Answer 3

You could use proxies.

You can buy several hundred IPs for very cheap, and use selenium as you previously have done. Furthermore I suggest varying the browser your use and other user-agent parameters.

You could iterate over using a single IP address to load only x number of pages and stopping prior to getting banned.

def load_proxy(PROXY_HOST,PROXY_PORT):
        fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
        fp.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
        fp.set_preference("network.proxy.http",PROXY_HOST)
        fp.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port",int(PROXY_PORT))
        fp.set_preference("general.useragent.override","whater_useragent")
        fp.update_preferences()
        return webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)