Proxy Jacking

Free proxies, while seemingly profitable and attractive, are actually not very effective. They cannot boast of security, speed, stability and acceptable duration of work. Qualitative and reliable proxies require a certain investment, but they can be obtained from companies that have a good reputation as proxy service providers. You can also find out about all the nuances of proxy selection with the help of special proxy databases.

VPN allows you to hide your real IP address, as well as further encrypt your traffic. VPN is also actively used for address spoofing. For example, the user is in the Russian Federation, but by connecting through a VPN server, the site "thinks" that the user is from the United States.

Scraping business contacts using regular expressions can be challenging and error-prone, especially considering the variations in contact information formats. Instead of using regular expressions directly, a better approach is to use a dedicated HTML parser like DOMDocument or a library like Simple HTML DOM Parser in PHP. This allows you to navigate the HTML structure and extract relevant information more reliably.

Here's an example using Simple HTML DOM Parser to scrape business contact information

Install Simple HTML DOM Parser:

You can download it from sourceforge and include it in your project, or use Composer:

composer require sunra/php-simple-html-dom-parser

Scraping Script:

find('span.phone-number') as $phoneElement) {
        $contacts[] = $phoneElement->plaintext;
    }

    // Example: Extracting email addresses
    foreach ($html->find('a.email') as $emailElement) {
        $contacts[] = $emailElement->plaintext;
    }

    // Add more logic to extract other types of contact information

    return $contacts;
}

// Example usage
$url = 'https://example.com/business-page';
$businessContacts = scrapeBusinessContacts($url);

// Print the extracted contacts
print_r($businessContacts);

2. Adjust the HTML element selectors (span.phone-number, a.email, etc.) based on the structure of the business contacts on the target website.

Remember:

• Web scraping might violate the terms of service of some websites, so always check and comply with the website's policies.
• The HTML structure of a webpage can change, so your scraping code might need adjustments if the website updates its design.
• Web scraping may be subject to legal and ethical considerations. Ensure you have the right to scrape and use the data.

Free proxies, while seemingly profitable and attractive, are actually not very effective. They cannot boast of security, speed, stability and acceptable duration of work. Qualitative and reliable proxies require a certain investment, but they can be obtained from companies that have a good reputation as proxy service providers. You can also find out about all the nuances of proxy selection with the help of special proxy databases.

It is a service that provides the ability to use a proxy server. It provides connection data (IP address and port number) as well as remote equipment that acts as a "gateway" for transferring traffic.