Do I need to know how to code to use the Crawling API?
At the moment the only way to use ProxyCrawl is by integrating it to your product or service, therefore you will need to know development or know/pay someone which can help you.
Please note that we have some very easy to integrate libraries.
Yes, the proxy can be used for https websites, but the connection to the proxy must be done with http. So when connecting to the proxy use http://proxy.proxycrawl.com and not https://proxy.proxycrawl.com
All https traffic that you send to any website using the proxy, will continue to be securely transfered and we won't be able to access it in any way.
We want to offer more than just a list or lists of proxies, therefore our API and Crawler products are built on top of thousands of residential and data center worldwide proxies combined with artificial intelligence plus our engineering team which helps delivering the best data results possible. If you are looking just for proxies and you don't want to get any of the other benefits, we recommend that you use the Proxy Backconnect
No, you cannot change the account email address. If you need to do so, please create a new account with the new email and re-add your billing details to the new account. Don't forget to update your account tokens.
What is the difference between Crawling API and Scraper API?
The Crawling API is a generic API that can be used to crawl any website and get the raw source page. It also gives the option to use our classified scrapers. The Scraper API is an API that focuses on auto scraping and parsing HTML pages into structured data.
One of their differences as well, the Crawling API is tiered pricing and payments are made at the end of every month based on the request consumption while the Scraper API is subscription-based.
If the Scraper API is not giving you the data you need, please let us know more details on the pages you are crawling and we will build a classifier for it.
