Captchas and Other Security Measures
Explore techniques to handle common web scraping security measures like captchas, IP blocking, and rate limiting using Puppeteer. Understand how to integrate third-party captcha solvers, rotate IP addresses, and implement delays and backoff strategies to maintain efficient and ethical scraping practices.
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In web scraping, websites might implement various security measures to prevent automated access, using mechanisms like Captchas, IP blocking, or rate limiting. These security measures can make scraping more challenging. In this lesson, we'll explore strategies to handle captchas and other security measures when performing web scraping using Puppeteer.
Common security measures
In this section, let’s discuss a few standard security measures used widely today to block scraping data by automated scripts or bots and how to tackle them. These mechanisms will be improved/changed in the future, and web scrapping must also be improved to address those challenges.
Captchas
This is a sample captcha challenge to verify that the user is human. Captchas can take various forms, such ...