![]() ![]() So the destination never knows the actual origin of the request. The Tor Browser allows us to connect to the internet and send requests from different IP addresses. It directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network, consisting of more than six thousand relays, for concealing a user’s location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. But in most cases, we do not have that kind of time. One way to circumnavigate this problem is to space out our requests across hours or days. This is done in order to quash Denial-Of-Service attacks before they can slow the website down. ![]() Most websites have a defense mechanism against back-to-back requests coming from the same IP address. How many times have you automated a code to run multiple times in order to scrape a website, take a coffee back and then come back to find that the website has blocked your advances? It sets you back by hours, causes frustration, and delays your progress. Google guards its data notoriously well and it is not uncommon to see a page like this when you try to summon too many consecutive requests to google. Your beautiful scraper was running fine when you left. ![]()
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