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Charles Proxy for Web Scraping
- mikecoles 6y agoCharles was my go-to. After the lifetime license expired I surveyed what was available and settled on OWASP's ZED/ZAP. https://owasp.org/www-project-zap/ https://owasp.org/www-project-zap/ For the Charles license, I got many years of service from, I think, $40. If the product fits you, I suggest it.
- kwhitefoot 6y ago> lifetime license expired How does a lifetime license expire?
- thehappypm 6y agoNobody specified whose life.
- ricardo81 6y agoMust be old fashioned, not seeing the need. My flow was always: 1) Look at the site (nowadays using your browser console) 2) Evaluate whether the "interesting" data is server-side or client side. Seems nowadays a client side request is more normal, typically resulting in structured data. 3) "copy as curl" 4) Code Admit I have never used Charles or heard of it. The mobile app debugging looks useful though I have used a MITM proxy in the past for the same advantages. Generally the process is simply that, figuring out the requests of a site. More effort may be needed to circumvent rate limiting, but to me that's an almost entirely separate issue.
- tenaciousDaniel 6y agoThis was years ago, but I used Charles for inspecting traffic coming from mobile apps. I'd install their certificate onto a jailbroken iphone, then route the traffic through my laptop. Suddenly I had all the unencrypted network requests and responses. Was pretty awesome.