Hello! I have a server that runs 24/7, and have recently started doing some stuff that requires scraping the web. The websites are detecting the server’s IP to not be residential though, and it’s causing issues.
I’d like to host a proxy server on the small server I have running 24/7 in my house, so that everything for that 1 page could be proxied through it. Does anyone have any idea how I’d set up a server like that? Thanks.
Besides other answers - you could just use SSH port forwarding. Remote would be your home server, local would be your “cloud” server. You should initiate the connection from the cloud server to your home server. Playing with local ports would enable you filter what domains are used for the proxy.
I rarely use it, so the exact syntax is gone from my memory. It is a bit tricky at first, but definitely not rocket science to figure out.
Once the connection is established - you would point your scraper to
https://localhost:localportThis is the most simple solution and probably a lot safer than the alternatives. Another good option would be to use OpenVPN.