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Add an input option to select a specific proxy provider

Open jancurn opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

The reality is, each underlying proxy provider sometimes returns slightly different results. We should provide users with the ability to select the provider.

jancurn avatar Feb 17 '20 22:02 jancurn

Actually, a cleaner and more generic way to do this is to add an input field called Additional query parameters that will be appended to the URL. We can add a special param to pick the provider, or use this for other customizations.

jancurn avatar Feb 17 '20 23:02 jancurn

This would be great for the focused paid ads scraping.

metalwarrior665 avatar Apr 14 '20 09:04 metalwarrior665

BTW you can already do this now, using the URLs instead of search tersm and using the xprovider query parameter

jancurn avatar Apr 14 '20 10:04 jancurn

Yes but it is not documented and the differences between providers are not explained.

Also, we had a use-case for screenshots where some providers show a pop-up.

metalwarrior665 avatar Apr 14 '20 11:04 metalwarrior665