Web Scraping & Proxy Glossary

This glossary is your handbook to web scraping and proxies. You’ll find clear definitions of the tools, techniques, and technologies used in data extraction.

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A

API (Application Programming Interface)
Axios

D

Data Extraction
Data Mining
DNS
DOM
Domain

H

Honeypot
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

J

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

N

Network Protocol
Node.js

R

Regex
Robots.txt

T

Token

C

C#
CAPTCHA
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
CSV (Comma-Separated Values)
cURL

F

Fetch

I

IP Address
IPv4 Proxy
IPv6

M

MySQL

P

Playwright

S

Scraper
Selenium
SMB (Server Message Block)
SQL