Proxies

nsYZY · 1 Feb 2017 at 17:00

Hi,

I'm looking for some advice - looking for a guide to scraping fasdt proxies for the adidas.co.uk website to use with a sneaker bot - for my own use.

Can't locate a good guide anywhere - I'm a total newb.

Would appreciate any help

Thank you.

peterwalkley · 1 Feb 2017 at 20:38

You want to crawl all over their site whilst hiding your IP address ? Or did I misunderstand ?

Mynight · 1 Feb 2017 at 21:27

fasdt?

AHarvey · 1 Feb 2017 at 21:54

Sounds like someone has been watching too much Mr Robot....

Deleted member 77746 · 1 Feb 2017 at 23:06

What? ....

On Holiday · 1 Feb 2017 at 23:11

Mynight · 2 Feb 2017 at 01:05

I didn't even know this was a thing.

Brb building sneaker bot.

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Feb 2017 at 08:22

Plenty O'Toole said:
Basically these guys, mostly Chinese, buy servers with 256 IP addresses which they cycle through to try and buy limited edition "sneakers" as soon as they are released so they can sell on for much more $$$

Whooooooo sneaky bugger!!

ultralaser · 2 Feb 2017 at 10:25

Used to happen on the Dell outlet site for a while, peeps would get the best deals and then sell them on Ebay for more $$$'s.

Personally I'd look at using something like Python's requests library if your just scraping and using this snippet from stack overflow to make it work with proxies.

Just a word of caution remember that HTTP proxies are transparent (I.e. they can intercept your traffic) so be careful.

Russinating · 3 Feb 2017 at 16:25

I would look into this myself but I don't want to tread on anyone's toes.

ultralaser · 3 Feb 2017 at 21:36

Russinating said:
I would look into this myself but I don't want to tread on anyone's toes.

very good