The Undocumented Web: scraping, private APIs, proxies and “alternative solutions”
July 25, 2018, 1 p.m. (6 years, 3 months ago)
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What is the undocumented web? Scott and Wes dive into it, discussing APIs, faking, scraping, automation, proxies as well as tips and tricks for best practices.
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Show Notes
3:05 - What Is the undocumented web?
- When traditional methods don’t give you what you want
- Wild West
6:10 - Undocumented APIS
- Instagram’s private API
- Use dev tools’ XHR Request
- React Dev Tools will also have the data
- Ep 008 - Wes Bos Origin Story
- Realtor.ca - MLS Mapping
- Simon Willison’s Zeit Day Talk about XML files
- Charles Proxy App - also good for debugging requests
17:34 - Faking
- Faking User Agents
- Sending headers from requests
- Free Blackberry wifi on plane
23:52 - Scraping
- What is craping?
- Cheerio - jQuery like node package
27:30 - Automation
33:30 - Proxies
- Need a fresh IP address
- Need a different country
- Side note: Canadians buying stuff in USA M4S1P1 === 41100
- API throttling
39:00 - Tips and Tricks
- Multiple API keys
- diskDB - Text files as databases
- Search Github for API keys
- Inspect Element and Delete Overlays
- Delete Cookiesokay
44:45 - Stories
- Photo Voting
- MLS Listing
- Top Entrepreneur voting cheating
- Vanity Plate Checker
- My Hockey Team Sucks
- Vehicle auction bidding app
- youtube-dl
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- Scott: Octopath Traveler & OST
- Wes 1: AvE Youtube Channel
- Wes 2: Mustie1 Youtube Channel
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