Building Price Scraping Tools: Picking the Best Proxies

What are price scrapers? Why is it essential for e-commerce businesses, and what tools should they be using? Find all about it in our new article.

Gabija Fatenaite

2021-05-13

6 min read

Residential Proxy Sourcing: Worst Practices

Unethically sourced residential proxies

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2021-04-29

3 min read

What Is Online Reputation Management?

What is online reputation management? Why is it beneficial? What are the main challenges of monitoring it? Read the article and find out more.

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-03-29

8 min read

Under the Hood of Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

Counterfeiting is a big issue around the world. Anti-counterfeiting technologies have to be well advanced to be capable of finding counterfeit goods online, anywhere in the world. Web scraping tools and proxies are an inseparable part of modern anti-counterfeiting solutions.

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-03-24

5 min read

Oxylabs Signs Exclusive Contract with Honeygain

Honeygain and Oxylabs have signed an exclusive agreement! Find out how this will strengthen our long-lasting partnership and benefit the proxy industry at large.

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2021-03-18

2 min read

How to Avoid Phishing With Proxies?

How to avoid phishing with premium proxies and brand new web scraping techniques? Read this article and learn more!

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-03-15

5 min read

Oxylabs Webinar: Web Scraping From a Legal Perspective

Watch our free legal webinar! We aim to help those who perhaps do not have a legal team to maneuver public data gathering roads.

Gabija Fatenaite

2021-03-05

2 min read

How Proxies Help Improve Ad Verification?

Did you know that proxies help advertisers check if their ads are displayed in the proper context and seen by the right audience? Read this article to learn everything about ad verification and the most suitable proxies for this process.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-03-01

4 min read

Finance Companies Pay the Price for Overlooking Alternative Data

Billions of dollars have been lost due to a lack of alternative data monitoring. GameStop revolt is just an example of a lost opportunity to optimize public data in order to make informed investment predictions.

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-02-03

2 min read

What Are Backconnect Proxies?

Learning what a backconnect proxy is may help you choose the best solution for your web scraping tasks. Backconnect proxies are very popular for web scraping because they allow you to make each request with a different IP address. Read more to understand how these proxies work and what issues they help to overcome.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-01-28

4 min read

Screening Multiple Targets for Cybersecurity

Monitoring and gathering cyber threat intelligence can be difficult due to the complex nature of the issue and the variety of targets. Web scraping may help businesses to monitor their sensitive content and expand the visibility of its use. But what are the challenges when screening multiple targets? Should you use an in-house built web scraper or ready-to-use solution? Which proxies should you choose? Read and find out more!

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-01-14

1 min read

How to Build a Web Scraper?

If you’re considering starting web scraping for your business, this article is what you need. Learn the necessary steps of building a web scraper in Python or JavaScript programming languages. You will also find out the most common web scraping challenges and how to deal with them.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-01-13

12 min read

What Is HTTP Proxy?

What is an HTTP proxy? What is an HTTP proxy server used for? Read this article to find out the answers to these questions, and learn how different HTTP proxy configurations can bring your company various benefits.

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-01-12

4 min read

Scraping Images for Intellectual Property Protection

With increased intellectual property infringement cases, monitoring your business assets is crucial more than ever. How can scraping images help to secure your brand? What are the best tools and solutions? Get a free whitepaper and find out more.

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-01-07

1 min read

Illegal Content: How We Built an AI-powered Tool to Detect It Online

Illegal content detection online is important for making the internet a safer place for everyone. Oxylabs took up the challenge to build a solution that automatically detects restricted content and reports it to governmental authorities. This article explains how this solution was developed and covers every step of the process in detail.

Adelina Kiskyte

2020-12-21

3 min read

Online Media Monitoring: Challenges and Solutions

Online media monitoring helps various businesses find out their online reputation, set marketing goals, get the required information about their industry or other relevant topics. However, companies that provide online media monitoring services face many challenges. This article explains what solutions can help these companies deal with encountered issues.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-12-18

8 min read

The Ultimate Guide on Choosing Proxies for Email Protection: Free Whitepaper

Cybersecurity companies take care of sensitive clients’ data by scanning emails and detecting suspicious URLs and attachments. Without proxies, the email protection process would not be so effective. This article explains how proxies are involved in this process and what type of proxies are the best for email protection.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-12-14

1 min read

Oxylabs Team Presents a Winning Solution for Cleaner Internet

December 8, 2020, marked a special occasion for Oxylabs. The prototype for the first-of-its-kind solution aimed at automated illegal online content detection was officially presented at the concluding event of the Govtech Lab challenge. The prototype can automatically find and identify illegal visual content in the Lithuanian internet space by utilizing custom-built data acquisition and AI-driven recognition tools.

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2020-12-11

1 min read

CEO's Guide to Data Extraction

Data extraction is at the core of many different businesses, from finance to e-commerce companies and everything in between. But what is data extraction? What is it used for and what challenges does it bring? Read all about it here.

Adelina Kiskyte

2020-12-09

5 min read

Acquiring Data Directly From Search Engines: Methods

Data from search engine result pages (SERPs) has a lot of value for various industries. Companies use this data to gain a competitive advantage, attract more traffic, and build a better authority. However, acquiring data from SERPs is challenging. There are multiple ways how companies extract data from search engines, and each has its pros and cons.

Adelina Kiskyte

2020-12-08

5 min read

Proxies for Cybersecurity Solutions

Proxies are widely used in cybersecurity. Download free white paper and find out which proxies are the best for each use case!

Adomas Sulcas

2020-12-07

1 min read

Semi-Dedicated Proxies: What Are They?

What are semi-dedicated proxies? How do they work? What are the pros and cons of using semi-dedicated proxies? Read this article and find out more!

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2020-11-30

5 min read

Are SOCKS5 Proxies Secure Enough for Your Business Needs?

In this article, we will expand upon what is SOCKS5, and why they might not be the best choice from a security perspective.

Gabija Fatenaite

2020-10-23

4 min read

What is Load Testing?

An inevitable part of successful business processes, load testing requires careful planning and the right solutions. In this article, we discuss how load tests work, their best practices, and what part proxies play in load testing.

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2020-10-23

6 min read

What Are HTTP Cookies and What Are They Used For?

Learn more about HTTP cookies, and how they are an important part in web scraping to avoid unsuccessful requests and being blocked by targeted web pages.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-10-13

4 min read

CTO's Checklist: 6 Things to Know About Web Scraping

It is always nice to have a checklist of things to do to get your project running as smoothly as possible. This checklist will help you figure out what resources you need and how web scraping projects look like.

Gabija Fatenaite

2020-10-13

6 min read

What is Python Used For: Top 6 Options

If you have ever wondered why Python is the most popular programming language in terms of web scraping and what are Python advantages, check out this article for more information!

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-10-07

8 min read

Oxylabs Wins GovTech Lab Challenge With AI-Driven Solution

Oxylabs wins GovTech Lab challenge with AI-Driven Solution to streamline the detection and removal of prohibited online content.

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2020-10-06

2 min read

How to Configure a Proxy Server in Firefox?

If you are interested in privacy and security when browsing the internet, setting up a proxy in your web browser is a great option. Find out how to set up proxies with one of the most popular web browsers, Mozilla Firefox.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-10-02

3 min read

What is Alternative Data?

What is alternative data? Well, in the following article, we’ll answer each of these questions and go in-depth on how this sort of data can be effectively gathered.

Gabija Fatenaite

2020-09-28

5 min read

Residential Proxy Acquisition: Best Practices

Oxylabs is a strong advocate of fairness and transparency regarding residential proxy acquisition. Learn more about the best industry practices.

Jurgita Tuzikaite

2020-09-24

3 min read

IPv4 vs. IPv6: What is the Difference?

In this article, we compared IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and singled out their main differences. Read to find out about the future of IP addresses and the problems that arise when changing from IPv4 to IPv6 addresses completely.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2020-09-23

5 min read

What is cURL and What Does It Mean?

Want to find out what is cURL and how it's used? Read on to get a quick overview of an incredibly powerful command line tool!

Adomas Sulcas

2020-09-21

5 min read