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> The crawl function reads a URL from the SQS queue, then Pyppeteer tells Chrome to navigate to that page behind a rotating residential proxy. The residential proxy is necessary to prevent Google from blocking the IP Lambda makes requests from.

I am very interested in what a 'rotating residential proxy' is. Are they routing requests through random people's internet connections? Are these people willing participants? Where do they come from?

parent cortesoft 6 years ago

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