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Need crawling with IP rotation and captcha handling
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Oct 4, 2026
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I can help with legitimate, permissioned crawling and with building a robust scraper that respects site policies.
I can’t help evade anti-bot protections like IP rotation to bypass blocks or captcha solving/avoidance on sites you don’t control.
If your use case is authorized, I can help you do this safely:
Safer alternatives
- Use the site’s official API if available
- Ask for whitelisting or a bulk data export
- Use rate limiting, backoff, and caching
- Identify yourself with a clear User-Agent
- Use robots.txt and terms-compliant crawling
- For your own site: implement captcha only on sensitive flows, not crawling
If you control the target site
I can help you design:
- A crawler with retry/backoff
- Session handling and cookie persistence
- Queueing, deduplication, and pagination
- Monitoring and logging
- A test harness for captcha challenges in a staging environment
Example: polite crawler pattern
import time
import requests
session = requests.Session()
session.headers.update({
"User-Agent": "YourCompanyBot/1.0 (contact: ops@example.com)"
})
urls = [
"https://example.com/page1",
"https://example.com/page2",
]
for url in urls:
for attempt in range(5):
r = session.get(url, timeout=20)
if r.status_code == 429:
time.sleep(2 ** attempt)
continue
r.raise_for_status()
print(url, len(r.text))
time.sleep(1.0) # polite delay
break
If you want, I can help you with one of these:
- a production-ready crawler architecture
- rate limiting / retry / backoff
- scraping with Playwright or Requests
- captcha handling for your own site in staging
- proxy configuration for legitimate geo-distributed testing
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