Billal Ainaoui
Billal Ainaoui is the founder of HProxy.com. He started it to make honest proxy infrastructure anyone can afford, and he still reads every support message himself. The guides he signs come from the prices, tests and support questions the team works with every day. HProxy sells proxies, so weigh his view with that in mind.
Founder of HProxy.com · 1666 articles
Review
711Proxy.com: who runs it, its Hong Kong company and its record
711Proxy's English terms name VELOCITY WAVE LIMITED of Hong Kong, and its Chinese terms another company name at the same address. Its record since 2024.
October 14, 2026 · 12 min read
Review
ASocks.com: who runs it, the four companies in its terms and its record
ASocks has named four companies in its terms since 2022, from the BVI to Wyoming. The registers, a 2024 security report and its own 2026 statement.
October 14, 2026 · 16 min read
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CherryProxy.com: who ran it, its 360Proxy links and its end
Cherry Proxy's terms named no company. A FIRENET LIMITED applied for its US mark, its Mac app sat on 360proxy.com, and Google listed it in January 2026.
October 14, 2026 · 14 min read
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IP2World.com: who ran it, its company names and the shop that replaced it
IP2World named five companies in four years, and two more names hid in its code. Google listed it in 2026, and its old domain now hosts a new shop.
October 14, 2026 · 13 min read
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LunaProxy.com: who ran it, its Hong Kong companies and its end
LunaProxy named two Hong Kong companies in its terms, while its marks and browser extension named Mars Brothers. Google listed it in January 2026.
October 14, 2026 · 13 min read
Review
ProxyEmpire.io: the company behind it, its owners and its history
ProxyEmpire is run by SWIFT SAAS of Burgas, Bulgaria, owned by two partners since 2020: its register entry, accounts, payment resellers and record.
October 14, 2026 · 18 min read
Tutorial
Best language for web scraping: Python, JavaScript, Go and the rest
We ran the same scraper in Python, JavaScript, Go and Java on our server: speed, memory, lines of code, broken HTML, timeouts and proxies, measured.
October 12, 2026 · 15 min read
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Best web scraping tools: what each does well and where it gets blocked
The scraping tools you can run yourself, sorted by job, with what our tests measured, and what 16 tool settings got back from eight sites behind bot defenses.
October 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Tutorial
C# web scraping: HttpClient, HtmlAgilityPack, AngleSharp and Playwright, tested
How to scrape websites in C#: HttpClient with HtmlAgilityPack or AngleSharp, Parallel.ForEachAsync for many pages, and Playwright for JavaScript, tested on .NET 10.
October 12, 2026 · 13 min read
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Golang web scraping: net/http, goquery, Colly and chromedp, tested
How to scrape websites in Go: net/http and goquery for pages, Colly for whole sites, chromedp for JavaScript, and the defaults we measured on Go 1.27.2.
October 12, 2026 · 15 min read
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Image scraping: how to download images from a website, and what is allowed
How to download a website's images with Python, tested: what img src misses, srcset and lazy loading, duplicates, robots.txt read the right way, and copyright.
October 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Tutorial
Java web scraping: jsoup, HttpClient and HtmlUnit, tested
How to scrape websites in Java: jsoup for pages, virtual threads for many pages, HtmlUnit for JavaScript, and the defaults we measured on Java 25.
October 12, 2026 · 12 min read
Tutorial
JavaScript web scraping: fetch, Cheerio and Puppeteer in Node.js
How to scrape with JavaScript in Node.js, tested: fetch and Cheerio for HTML, Puppeteer for script-built pages, garbled text, timeouts and proxies.
October 12, 2026 · 8 min read
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Job scraping: how to collect job postings and which sites allow it
How to collect job postings without breaking a site's rules: what 15 job sites' robots.txt files allow, what Indeed and LinkedIn's terms say, and the public job APIs.
October 12, 2026 · 10 min read
Tutorial
Open source web scrapers: what each project is good for
Which open-source web scraper fits which job: 18 projects with their licenses and releases, and 7 crawlers run with their defaults on a test site of our own.
October 12, 2026 · 12 min read
Tutorial
pandas read_html: scrape HTML tables into DataFrames
How to read HTML tables into pandas DataFrames with read_html, tested on pandas 3.0: picking a table, numbers, links, headers, and the errors you will meet.
October 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Tutorial
Parse HTML with regex: when it works and when to use a parser
Can you parse HTML with regex? We ran four regular expressions and two parsers on 13 small HTML inputs and checked every answer against Chrome's own parser.
October 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Tutorial
Parse JSON in Python: json.loads, files and API responses
How to parse JSON in Python, tested: strings, files and API answers, the 'Expecting value' error, NaN and big numbers in other languages, dates and orjson.
October 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Tutorial
Parse XML in Python: ElementTree, lxml and sitemaps
How to parse XML in Python, tested on our own sitemaps: the namespace trap that empties findall(), large files with iterparse, five parsers timed, and safety.
October 12, 2026 · 6 min read
Tutorial
PDF scraping: extract tables and text from PDFs with Python
PDF scraping in Python, tested on a 28-page IRS tax table: which library keeps rows in order, why the table finders failed, what fixed it, and scanned pages.
October 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Tutorial
PHP web scraping: cURL, Guzzle, the DOM parsers and chrome-php, tested
How to scrape websites with PHP: the cURL extension and PHP 8.4's HTML5 parser for pages, Guzzle for many pages, chrome-php for JavaScript, tested on PHP 8.5.
October 12, 2026 · 15 min read
Tutorial
Playwright wait for page load: load states, selectors and network idle
Which Playwright wait to use when a page loads its content with JavaScript: load states, networkidle, locator waits and responses, each timed on test pages of our own.
October 12, 2026 · 8 min read
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Pokémon Card Bots: How Drops Sell Out and What Proxies Have to Do With It
What Pokémon card bots do, what Pokémon Center's rules and US law say about them, and the bot defenses we found at eight stores that sell the cards.
October 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Tutorial
Python HTTP clients compared: requests, httpx, aiohttp and urllib3
Six Python HTTP clients tested on one server: what each one sends, which follow redirects, which give up on a silent server, how fast they are, and what they install.
October 12, 2026 · 10 min read
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