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Do I have to buy proxies to use scrapebox?
No, you can use scrapebox sole with public proxies. Free public proxy sources come included with scrapebox, as well as the ability to add your own free sources. If you choose to purchase proxies, scrapebox will work with those as well.
What advantage does paid proxies have over public proxies?
You will get a much better speed with paid private proxies. You will know 100% that you are always anonymous. You will have stable reliability. Overall you will have a better experience when using many aspects of scrapebox with paid proxies.
Does scrapebox come with proxies to use?
Scrapebox has a proxy harvester, where it will go and scrape proxies from websites for you. It comes included with some sources, but more importantly it gives you the option to add your own custom sources.
How do I add my own custom proxy sources?
In the Select Engines & Proxies section click:
Manage Proxies -> Harvest Proxies -> Add Source
You can add both HTTP and SOCKS proxy sources.
Proxy sources must be a regular web page that lists proxies and does not require a login. For instance, if the list is contained in a flash popup or a downloadable list it won't work. Only a regular HTML style web page will work.
Additionally the proxies have to be updated on the very url you specify. So if you specify a home page of a site that lists new proxies, if the newest proxies are listed on the home page it will work. If the proxies are listed on new sub pages of the site, scrapebox will Not spider the site to find the pages with the proxies. So you need to find a static url that is updated.
Can scrapebox use Socks 4 and Socks 5 proxies?
Yes scrapebox can use SOCKS proxies, but you need to append a S to the beginning of each proxy. Like
195.195.195.195:80
Would be
S195.195.195.195:80
What format do I put my username and password in for proxies?
The way that you format proxies is like this:
IP:PORT
or
IP:PORT:USERNAME:PASS
127.0.0.1:80:username:password
Does scrapebox work with https proxies?
No, scrapebox lacks the elements to support and function with HTTPS proxies.
When are proxies used and not used by Scrapebox?
In some cases scrapebox will not use proxies even if the use proxies box is checked. This is because some elements have no need for proxies and it would only slow things down. To this end this FAQ shows you what elements will and will not use proxies if the use proxies box is checked.
That is to say, I am going to assume the the use proxies box IS checked, below will tell you if scrapebox will ignore that, or if it will use the proxies.
Main Scrapebox GUI:
Fast Poster - Proxies are used
Slow Poster - Proxies are used
Manual Poster - Proxies are used
Link Checker - Proxies not used
Addons:
Link Extractor - Proxies not used
Fake PR Checker - Proxies are used
Rapid Indexer - Proxies not used
Backlink Checker - Proxies are used
Dofollow Test - Proxies are not used
Dofollow/Nofollow Check - Proxies are used
Blog Analyzer - Proxies are used
Malware Addon - Proxies are used
Alive Check - Proxies are used
Google Image Grabber - Proxies are used
WhoIs Scraper - If you have SOCKS proxies they are used, HTTP proxies are not used
This FAQ is still under construction.
When using the poster, if a proxy fails, will scrapebox attempt to use another proxy to post that comment?
When using fast poster for instance, if you are posting to a list of urls, and a proxy fails on any given url, scrapebox will skip that url. It will not automatically attempt to retry that url with a different proxy.
Part of the reasoning for this is that proxies don't give proxy specific error codes. If they don't work they can give the same error codes that a website url will give if it doesn't work. So Scrapebox has no way of knowing if it was the proxy or the website that failed. So if scrapebox kept hammering the urls thru different proxies it would exponentially slow scrapebox down in posting.
This is why its important to use quality proxies when posting, failing to do so can dramatically lower your success rates. Also you can always export failed and then repost to failed list.
