session
getStartTime
Description
Retrieve the time at which the scrape started.
Parameters
This method does not receive any parameters.
Return Values
Returns the start time of the scrape in milliseconds, as a long.
Anonymization
Overview
External Proxy Settings
Overview
If you are already going through a proxy server, screen-scraper must be told the credentials in order to get out to the internet. These methods are all provided to manually tell screen-scraper how to get through your external proxy.
If you always go through the same external proxy you would probably want to set the credentials in screen-scraper's proxy settings so that you don't have to specify them in all of your scrapes.
getCurrentProxyServerFromPool
Description
Get the current proxy server from the proxy server pool.
Parameters
This method does not receive any parameters.
Return Values
Returns the current proxy server being used.
getUseProxyFromPool
Description
Determine whether proxies are being used from proxy pool.
Parameters
This method does not receive any parameters.
Return Values
Returns true if a proxy pool is being used; otherwise, it returns false.
setUseProxyFromPool
Description
Determine if proxies from a proxyServerPool be used when making scrapeable file request.
Parameters
- useProxyFromPool Whether proxies in the proxyServerPool should be used, as a boolean.
Return Values
Returns void.
setProxyServerPool
Description
Associate a proxy pool with a scraping session.
Parameters
- proxyServerPool A ProxyServerPool object.
Return Values
Returns void.
setExternalNTProxyDomain
Description
Manually set external NT proxy domain.
Parameters
- domain Domain for the external NT proxy, as a string.
Return Values
Returns void.
setExternalNTProxyHost
Description
Manually set external NT proxy host/domain.
Parameters
- host Host/domain for the external NT proxy, as a string.
Return Values
Returns void.
setExternalNTProxyPassword
Description
Manually set external NT proxy password.
Parameters
- password Password for the external NT proxy, as a string.
Return Values
Returns void.