01-24-2014, 02:18 AM
(01-19-2014, 04:05 PM)deepx Wrote: I managed to fix the issue by buying 10 private proxies but that didn't work as I expected.
I have an unusual problem, my proxies are working for normal Google scraping, but they don't work for Google Maps scraping. Any idea what the problem could be?
My 10 private proxies were working but only on the first day. I was even able to scrape 1-2k urls daily on Google Maps for a few days without using proxies at all. As you already know, my VPS IP is was blocked by Google long time ago so I'm totally confused right now. I'm not able to scrape Google Maps with our without proxies anymore...
Maybe my proxies got banned by Google Maps server and not by Google Search Engine server? If that's the case, is it possible that my 10 private proxies got banned right away by Google Maps. I used 1 connection and 5 sec delay.
I hope that you'll be able to help me
Thank you
Yes most likely your proxies are banned by google maps. Ive been doing some google maps scraping and I can tell you for a fact it is EXCESSIVELY AGGRESSIVE at banning IPs. Much more then regular google scraping. Not sure why, but it is.
Given that maps is centered around images and scrapebox and any other socket based scraper thats multi threaded would not work with images or javascript, then google knows its being scraped because the images, which is the key point of google maps, isn't being used.
The only alternative to this is using a single threaded scraper and running it in a browser mode, which is slow and a pain at best.
So I am working with very small batches of keywords and very low connections and/or solid delays. You could up the delay or even go to random. RND and then you can set the random range under settings.