Block-Free Web Scraping: A Comprehensive Guide

Augustas Pelakauskas

2024-08-301 min read

Web scraping is an essential practice for data-driven businesses. Acquiring and analyzing large amounts of public data can unveil surprising insights, creating new avenues for business growth.

The obstacle experienced by anyone who has ever tried web scraping is getting blocked. For many reasons, websites aren’t too keen on letting automated scripts browse their content freely. As a result, many web scraping newcomers get blacklisted and lose access to target content.

Even when collecting data with the best intentions, getting blocked is still possible. Websites have a hard time differentiating between good and bad bots and often enact blanket bans that stop most scripts from working.

Over the years spent in the web data industry, we have collected many insights that help avoid blocks. Following the steps outlined in this white paper, you can scrape freely and get banned less frequently.

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Block-Free Web Scraping: A Comprehensive Guide

What to expect from this white paper?

In this whitepaper, you’ll find the following nuances of minimizing blocks when web scraping:

Things to know before scraping
Actions to implement when scraping
The complexities of anti-bot measures
Oxylabs solution for large-scale data extraction

Explore other web data collection topics detailed in Oxylabs’ white papers.

About the author

Augustas Pelakauskas

Senior Copywriter

Augustas Pelakauskas is a Senior Copywriter at Oxylabs. Coming from an artistic background, he is deeply invested in various creative ventures - the most recent one being writing. After testing his abilities in the field of freelance journalism, he transitioned to tech content creation. When at ease, he enjoys sunny outdoors and active recreation. As it turns out, his bicycle is his fourth best friend.

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