How To Use Proxies With ParseHub

ParseHub is a scraping tool that allows you to extract valuable data from any website you want. It can get data from multiple pages at the same time and save that data on various formats. The best thing about ParseHub though is that it is free to use!

When you’re extracting data while using a scraping tool, you are sending a large number of requests to the web server in a short amount of time. This puts a huge load on the website’s servers which causes it to lag and that’s why most websites have strict restrictions on web scraping.

To bypass these restrictions, you need to utilize a ParseHub proxy. A proxy will handle all of your web requests for you which means that most websites will only be able to see the IP address of the proxy server and not your own.

By continuously rotating proxies, ParseHub would have a different IP address when it sends a set number of requests. This deceives websites into thinking that ParseHub’s requests are from multiple, genuine users. So, you won’t get banned when web scraping on that website.

Let’s set up a ParseHub proxy server.

How To Use Proxies With ParseHub

Step 1. Open ParseHub and click on New Project.

Step 2. Now, enter which website you want to scrape, and then click on Start project on this URL.

Step 3. Turn on the Browse button.

Step 4. Once the button is green, click on the browser’s tribar and click on options.

Step 5. Click on Advanced and then on Network.

Step 6. On Connection, click on Settings.

Step 7. Then, click on Manual proxy configuration.

Step 8. Input your proxy server’s IP address and Port number.

If you have a website you don’t want to use proxies on, put them here.

Step 9. Click on OK to save.

Congratulations! You have successfully finished setting a proxy server whenever you extract data using ParseHub.