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If you've run into any of the issues below, you may want to try setting up IP proxies manually in Octoparse:

• Unable to log into Octotoparse because your company or institution uses intranet and restricts external requests
• Target website is very sensitive to web scraping and implements anti-scraping strategies such as IP blocking to stop scraping activities

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to set up proxies to resolve the issues mentioned above.

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There are 2 ways to do so -

1. Use proxy to login Octoparse

2. Rotate external proxy servers to counteract IP blocking 

1. Use proxy to login Octoparse

• Click  on the login panel

• Enter proxy information as required

• You can Test to see if the connection is good then Confirm the setup

2. Rotate external proxy servers to counteract IP blocking 

If a website blocks your IP or our Cloud, you can set up an IP proxy in the task settings. The IP proxy will work for both local extraction and Cloud extraction.

• Open the task you would like to set up proxies for
• Click  on the top left

• Tick the Use IP Proxies box and go to Settings
• Note that Octoparse only supports HTTP proxies - please separate the IP address of the proxy server and port number with a colon. e.g. 58.22.214.29:2318 then Confirm your setup

Happy Data Hunting!

Author: The Octoparse Team

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