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Building A Proxy Scraper with 15 lines of Python

Yes, Python is great! It’s beautiful and so on…. I have described the power of Python many times. For now, just the codes 🙂 Here’s a proxy scraper I built a few moments ago. It scrapes the web page at proxy-hunter.blogspot.com and lists the available open proxies.

It uses the BeautifulSoup package for parsing HTML. On ubuntu install it with this command:

On other platforms, grab the package from its homepage. Google is there to find the URL for you 😉

2 replies on “Building A Proxy Scraper with 15 lines of Python”

thank you for being straightforward and clear and real — or at least, so far. awesome.

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