Getting Past Proxies

When scraping dates from a website using Java, the SimpleDateFormat class is commonly used for parsing and formatting dates. Below is an example demonstrating how to scrape dates from a webpage and parse them using SimpleDateFormat. Additionally, you can use a library like Jsoup for HTML parsing.

Make sure to replace the URL, HTML parsing logic, and date format patterns with your specific requirements.

import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class DateScrapingExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String url = "https://example.com"; // Replace with the URL of the webpage containing dates

        try {
            // Fetch HTML content using Jsoup
            Document document = Jsoup.connect(url).get();

            // Replace the following logic with the actual HTML parsing logic for dates
            Element dateElement = document.selectFirst(".date-selector"); // Replace with the appropriate selector
            String dateString = dateElement.text(); // Get the text content of the element

            // Parse the date using SimpleDateFormat
            SimpleDateFormat inputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
            Date parsedDate = inputFormat.parse(dateString);

            // Format the date for display
            SimpleDateFormat outputFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, MMM d, yyyy 'at' h:mm a");
            String formattedDate = outputFormat.format(parsedDate);

            // Print the formatted date
            System.out.println("Scraped Date: " + formattedDate);
        } catch (IOException | ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

In this example:

• We use the Jsoup library to fetch the HTML content from the specified URL.
• We assume there is an HTML element with a class name of "date-selector" containing the date text. Adjust the selector based on the structure of the webpage you are scraping.
• The SimpleDateFormat class is used to parse the scraped date string into a Date object using the specified input format.
• Another SimpleDateFormat is used to format the date into a more readable output format.

Note: Make sure to handle exceptions appropriately, and adjust the date format patterns according to the actual format used on the webpage.

To pass a Selenium WebDriver instance to a Python decorator, you can create a custom decorator that takes the WebDriver instance as an argument. Here's an example of how to do this:

First, create a custom decorator that accepts the WebDriver instance:

def webdriver_decorator(driver):
    def decorator(func):
        @functools.wraps(func)
        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
            return func(driver, *args, **kwargs)
        return wrapper
    return decorator

Create a function that takes the WebDriver instance as an argument and performs the desired action:

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

def my_function(driver, search_query):
    driver.get('https://example.com')
    search_box = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'search-box')))
    search_box.send_keys(search_query)
    search_box.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)

Apply the custom decorator to the function and pass the WebDriver instance:

@webdriver_decorator
def my_function_with_decorator(driver, search_query):
    return my_function(driver, search_query)

Now you can use the decorated function and pass the WebDriver instance:

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://example.com')

search_results = my_function_with_decorator(driver, 'your search query')

In this example, the my_function_with_decorator function is the same as the my_function function, but it is wrapped by the webdriver_decorator. When you call my_function_with_decorator, you need to pass the WebDriver instance as the first argument.

It is a proxy that everyone can connect to. That is, it handles absolutely all requests without interacting with the traffic in any way, without monitoring its packets.

Both on a PC and on modern cell phones, a built-in utility that is responsible for working with network connections, provides the ability to set up a connection through a proxy server. You just need to enter the IP-address for connection and the port number. In the future all traffic will be redirected through this proxy. Accordingly, the provider will not block it.

There are several options for its use: bypassing the blocking of websites, shopping in foreign online stores at regional (local) prices, access to a full library of media content, hiding your real IP-address.