📅 2024-07-12 — Session: Integrated Proxies into Tornado and Google Search Scripts
🕒 20:30–21:10
🏷️ Labels: Python, Proxies, Tornado, Web Scraping, Google Search
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance web scraping capabilities by integrating proxy management into Tornado web applications and Google search scripts, ensuring reliable and efficient data retrieval.
Key Activities
- Developed a Python script to handle batch processing and rate limiting for Google Search automation, ensuring data integrity by saving results into CSV files.
- Installed and configured Scylla for proxy management, retrieving and managing proxies with API usage and pagination handling.
- Troubleshot Scylla service to ensure proper proxy database population, including log checks and manual setup.
- Analyzed logs from Scylla proxy pooler and backend endpoint refresh events to identify errors and improve system reliability.
- Created a Tornado forward proxy server script and integrated a proxy list endpoint using Peewee for database interaction.
- Integrated proxy lists into Tornado applications and Google search scripts, enhancing web scraping workflows by managing rate limits and avoiding blocks.
Achievements
- Successfully integrated proxy management into Tornado applications and Google search scripts, improving web scraping efficiency and reliability.
- Identified and resolved issues in proxy service setup and log analysis, enhancing system performance.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing and optimization of proxy integration in Tornado and Google search workflows to ensure robustness and scalability.