✨As web scraping technology continues to evolve, are you struggling to collect web data? Traditional proxy solutions can no longer meet the demands of today's complex scenarios, necessitating a new solution to help you complete your business.
✨Luna Proxy has launched a new Universal Web Scraping API, combined with our residential proxy services, to provide you with diverse solutions. This article will explain how the Universal Web Scraping API works, compare its functionality and features with residential proxies, and analyze the differences between the two.
?1. What is the Universal Web Scraping API?
The Universal Web Scraping API is an essential tool for unlocking web pages, allowing access to content on websites restricted by region or network. Based on dynamic IP updates and browser fingerprint protection technology, the Universal Web Scraping API bypasses internet processing, allowing users to attempt to access unreachable pages.
?Technical Principles
Multi-layered Proxy Architecture: The general-purpose scraping API dynamically manages a proxy pool, automatically selecting the best proxy IP to send requests. These proxy IP typically include residential and data center proxies, simulating user access behavior from different geographical locations. Simultaneously, IP update functionality prevents a single IP from being penalized by the website, thereby improving the success rate of requests.
Browser Fingerprint Simulation: Browser fingerprints are unique identifiers generated by collecting hardware and software information from a user's device. The general-purpose scraping API dynamically modifies these parameters to simulate real user browser behavior, thus circumventing the target website's fingerprint detection mechanism.
Multi-layered anti-detection mechanisms:
✅ Simulating real TLS handshakes and HTTP protocol behavior
✅ Dynamically generating HTTP headers to simulate real traffic
Managing cookies, simulating fonts and audio fingerprints, further reducing the risk of detection.
Automatic retry: The general-purpose crawling API has built-in CAPTCHA cracking functionality, automatically analyzing and cracking common CAPTCHA types. If a request fails, the system will automatically retry, adjusting parameters before sending the request again.
JavaScript rendering: The general-purpose crawling API has a built-in browser engine that can execute JavaScript code and render the page, thereby obtaining complete dynamic content.
?2. What is a residential proxy?
Residential proxies act as intermediary servers, protecting user information when they access publicly available data on global websites. Because their IP addresses are assigned by their ISP and originate from real home network devices, their network behavior closely resembles that of ordinary users, effectively circumventing the target website's crawler countermeasures.
?Technical Principles
Large IP Pool: Residential proxies use IP addresses from real home network devices. These devices share their network resources through the proxy service provider, forming a large IP pool. When a user initiates a request, the proxy service provider dynamically assigns a residential IP from this pool, forwarding the user's request to the target website via that IP.
Dynamic IP Updates: Residential proxies typically support dynamic IP updates, automatically changing the IP address with each request or after periodic intervals. Ensure that every IP address in the IP pool is used efficiently, avoiding overuse of any single IP.
✈️3. General Crawl API vs. Residential Proxy : Luna Proxy Feature Comparison
? Core Features
⭐General Crawl API:
1. Luna Proxy combines residential and data center proxies in a hybrid scheduling strategy, automatically selecting the optimal IP type based on the target website's crawler resistance strength, balancing privacy and access speed;
2. Supports automatic IP switching based on request frequency or time intervals, preventing single IP from being blocked;
3. Increases the probability of being identified as a real human by websites by simulating human click frequency, mouse movement trajectory, and page dwell time;
4. Performs real-time verification of crawl results to ensure complete response content and conforms to the expected format, avoiding data loss due to incomplete page loading.
⭐Residential Proxy:
1. Residential IP addresses originate from real home networks, effectively bypassing IP blocking and web scraping mechanisms;
2. Luna proxy boasts an IP pool covering over 195 countries worldwide, with over 200 million ethically compliant IP;
3. Supports HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 protocols, enabling seamless integration with various web scraping tools, browsers, and applications;
4. Offers the option of dynamic or static residential proxies to meet diverse business scenarios.
?4. Conclusion
The choice between a general web scraping API and a residential proxy requires specific analysis, depending on your intended business scenario and factors such as stability and cost. Regardless of the tool you choose, the most important thing is to use it legally and compliantly.
Luna proxy provides both a general web scraping API and a residential proxy service to optimize your web scraping practices. If you have any further questions about the general web scraping API or residential proxy, please contact us at support@lunaproxy.com. If you are interested, register now for
a free trial.?
