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i could have a need for this type of service as well, but it's not clear what benefit it provides over PhantomJS. is it just the alternating of the scraping IP?
by bellwether 13y ago
i could have a need for this type of service as well, but it's not clear what benefit it provides over PhantomJS. is it just the alternating of the scraping IP?
a free trial would be helpful, but before i sign up, i need to know what i gain from the service. it seems like i still have to write all the same logic, but tubes.io just takes care of making the web request. if that's all, it's not exactly something i'd be willing to pay for.
- gee_totes 13y agoI'm a tubes.io customer (and a happy customer too) and my main use for it is both the alternating IP, and that it allows me to scale up scraping operations without having to deal with too much on my backend. The alternating IP is actually a bit of a big deal, it's kind of a pain to run your own proxies and have to manage the proxy switching yourself (so painful that I would pay 10 bucks/month for someone else to do it for me)
- bellwether 13y agotrue, alternating IPs are useful, except when you already have agreements to do the scraping with the target site, which we do. so what would interest me is something that made scraping easier or more robust. so far, it looks like the service still has some growing to do before it gets there.