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Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide Implement the power of Go to scrape and crawl data from the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615708
Length 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vincent Smith Vincent Smith
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Proxies

The role of a proxy is to provide an additional layer of protection on top of your system. At its core, a proxy is a server that sits in between your web scraper and the target web server, and passes communication between the two. Your web scraper sends a request to the proxy server, which then forwards the request to the website. From the point of view of the website, the request only comes from the proxy server, without any knowledge of the origin of the request. There are many types of proxy available, each with its own pros and cons

Public and shared proxies

Some proxies are open to the public to use. However, they can be shared by many different people. This jeopardizes your reliability because, if other users...

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