Crude Proxy

On the PC you can use SOCKS5 proxies, for example, through the browser Firefox. There are such a function in the settings, you just need to activate it. The only nuance: the connection speed or ping indicators in this case may be slowed down.

To organize multi-threaded scraping through a proxy in C#, you can use the HttpClient class along with tasks and threads. Additionally, you may use proxy rotation to avoid rate limiting and bans. Here's a basic example to get you started:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main()
    {
        // List of proxy URLs
        List proxyList = new List
        {
            "http://proxy1.com:8080",
            "http://proxy2.com:8080",
            // Add more proxies as needed
        };

        // Create HttpClient instances with a different proxy for each thread
        List httpClients = CreateHttpClients(proxyList);

        // List of URLs to scrape
        List urlsToScrape = new List
        {
            "https://example.com/page1",
            "https://example.com/page2",
            // Add more URLs as needed
        };

        // Create tasks for each URL
        List tasks = new List();
        foreach (string url in urlsToScrape)
        {
            tasks.Add(Task.Run(() => ScrapeUrl(url, httpClients)));
        }

        // Wait for all tasks to complete
        await Task.WhenAll(tasks);

        // Dispose of HttpClient instances
        foreach (HttpClient client in httpClients)
        {
            client.Dispose();
        }
    }

    static List CreateHttpClients(List proxies)
    {
        List clients = new List();
        foreach (string proxy in proxies)
        {
            var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
            {
                Proxy = new WebProxy(proxy),
                UseProxy = true,
            };

            clients.Add(new HttpClient(httpClientHandler));
        }

        return clients;
    }

    static async Task ScrapeUrl(string url, List httpClients)
    {
        // Select a random proxy for this request
        var random = new Random();
        var httpClient = httpClients[random.Next(httpClients.Count)];

        try
        {
            // Make the request using the selected proxy
            HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.GetAsync(url);

            // Check if the request was successful
            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
            {
                string content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                // Process the content as needed
                Console.WriteLine($"Scraped {url}: {content.Length} characters");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"Failed to scrape {url}. Status code: {response.StatusCode}");
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Error scraping {url}: {ex.Message}");
        }
    }
}

In this example:

The CreateHttpClients function creates a list of HttpClient instances, each configured with a different proxy from the provided list.

The ScrapeUrl function performs the actual scraping for a given URL using a randomly selected proxy.

The Main method creates tasks for each URL to be scraped and waits for all tasks to complete.

To use Selenium in Python to press a button on a site for a few seconds, you can follow these steps:

1. Install Selenium and a WebDriver for the browser you want to use (e.g., ChromeDriver for Google Chrome, GeckoDriver for Firefox).

2. Import the necessary modules in your Python script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

3. Initialize the WebDriver and navigate to the desired website:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='path/to/chromedriver')
driver.get('https://example.com')

4. Locate the button you want to press using one of the methods provided by Selenium, such as find_element_by_* or find_elements_by_*.

5. Use the ActionChains class to simulate a click and hold action on the button:

from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

button = driver.find_element(By.ID, 'button-id')
action = ActionChains(driver)
action.move_to_element(button).click_and_hold().perform()

# Wait for a few seconds
time.sleep(5)  # Adjust the duration as needed

# Release the button
action.release().perform()

6. Close the WebDriver after the action is complete:

driver.quit()

Note: Make sure to replace 'path/to/chromedriver' with the actual path to your WebDriver executable and 'button-id' with the actual ID of the button you want to press.

Also, the time.sleep(5) function is used to simulate holding the button for a few seconds. Adjust the duration by changing the 5 to the desired number of seconds.

On smartphones, when a proxy is turned on, the corresponding indicator (the "VPN" icon) appears in the status bar. In Windows you have to go to "Settings", open "Network and Internet". Under "Proxy Server", if the item "Manual" is activated, it means that the proxy is engaged right now.

Although free proxies are popular, they are far from being flawless in their work. Many of their IP addresses are blacklisted by popular resources, and the data transfer speed and stability are very unreliable. When choosing a proxy, keep in mind that the new version of IPv6 is not supported by most websites. Note also that proxies are divided into private and public, statistical and dynamic, and support different network protocols.