12-14-2011, 10:30 PM
(12-13-2011, 08:00 AM)GeneSB Wrote: I just bought SB and have been working through tutorials.. scraping/harvesting is not working for me either... getting 0 URLs every time too...
I think the search engines are blocking SB somehow
*EDIT* I unchecked use proxies and was able to get results... I guess I just had burned free proxies loaded...
**EDIT2** I scraped 65 public proxies and tried with proxies again... 0 results... ran a test on the 65 proxies and 60 came back as "IP Blocked" - is that a problem on my end or a problem with the proxies? I then immediately tried to harvest some URLs with the remaining good proxies... Google gave 0 results again.. Yahoo did give URLS... so, looks like Google is definitely blocking somehow
The problem is the crappy public proxies. Get some private ones or find some good shared proxies and you'll get results.