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For https://scrapingfish.com/ https://scrapingfish.com/ it took us about 5-6 months from idea to $2k/month. It’s still not our main source of income. It was fu
by mateuszbuda 3y ago
For https://scrapingfish.com/ https://scrapingfish.com/ it took us about 5-6 months from idea to $2k/month. It’s still not our main source of income. It was fun to build especially that it involved working with hardware.
- danstewart_ 3y agoI've got no use for it now but damn this used to be such a pain point in an old job. Looks great!
- kouteiheika 3y agoJust curious, so how exactly do you source your IPs? I clicked on the "How IPs for web scraping are sourced" page expecting an answer on how you do it, but it doesn't actually tell me that; it just tells me how they're not sourced. You said that "it involved working with hardware", so did you source your own mobile SIM cards in various countries, hook up your own phones to that and use those as proxies?
- mateuszbuda 3y agoGood question. Here we explain, with a few simplifications, how we source our IPs: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scraping https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...
- uptown 3y agoWouldn't this mean that you're bandwidth constrained by the data plan associated with the SIM from the mobile carrier?
- mateuszbuda 3y agoYes, but we have so many plans and actually many of them are unlimited. We also track data usage and can either add extra data package or a SIM card gets excluded from our proxy pool.
- edumucelli 3y agoProps to you guys for putting a complete tutorial on that and not keeping it for you. Cheers!
- mateuszbuda 3y agoThanks! Internally we use more sophisticated system required by larger scale to support higher volume and concurrent connections from multiple clients, but for smaller scale limited to one person or a small team, everything described on our blog should be enough.
- martin_a 3y agoLooks great, will give it a try. Bug found: Your "Buy" page is missing the header bar for navigation etc. edit: Contact page has the same problem. :-)
- mateuszbuda 3y agoActually, it’s a feature :)
- sgc 3y agoSome of us find that type of attempted lock-in extremely off-putting. I know it is common, but just a heads up. I have no idea how much of a minority we are.