Web Unblocker

Learn how to use Web Unblocker, an AI-powered proxy solution that unblocks even the most difficult sites.

Web Unblocker is an AI-powered proxy solution that manages the unblocking process to extract public data even from the most difficult websites.

You can try Web Unblocker for free for 1 week. Register to Oxylabs dashboard to get started.

The product is not a regular proxy but a more advanced system that manages multiple scraping processes such as:

Automatic proxy type management
Browser fingerprint generation
Automatic retries
Maintaining sessions
JavaScript rendering

Web Unblocker guarantees a much higher success rate in comparison with regular proxies. It also supports custom headers defined by the user and IP stickiness alongside reusable cookies and POST requests.

Getting Started

Integrating Web Unblocker is easy, especially if you have previously used regular proxies for web scraping. The only difference is that we require you to ignore the SSL certificate using the -k or --insecure cURL flags (or an equivalent expression in the language of your choice).

To make a request with Web Unblocker, you need to use the unblock.oxylabs.io:60000 proxy endpoint. See a cURL example below. You can find code samples in other languages here or complete code examples on our GitHub.

Use ip.oxylabs.io/location to check the parameters of your IPs—this domain delivers information from four geolocation databases: MaxMind, IP2Location, DB-IP, and IPinfo.io. The parameters include IP address, provider, country, city, ZIP code, ASN, organization name, time zone, and meta (when disclosed by database).

curl -k -x https://unblock.oxylabs.io:60000 \
-U 'USERNAME:PASSWORD' \
'https://ip.oxylabs.io/location'

import requests

# Use your Web Unblocker credentials here.
USERNAME, PASSWORD = 'YOUR_USERNAME', 'YOUR_PASSWORD'

# Define proxy dict.
proxies = {
  'http': f'http://{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@unblock.oxylabs.io:60000',
  'https': f'https://{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@unblock.oxylabs.io:60000',
}

response = requests.request(
    'GET',
    'https://ip.oxylabs.io/location',
    verify=False,  # Ignore the SSL certificate
    proxies=proxies,
)

# Print result page to stdout
print(response.text)

# Save returned HTML to result.html file
with open('result.html', 'w') as f:
    f.write(response.text)

import fetch from 'node-fetch';
import { HttpsProxyAgent } from 'https-proxy-agent';

const username = 'YOUR_USERNAME';
const password = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';

const agent = new HttpsProxyAgent(
  `https://${username}:${password}@unblock.oxylabs.io:60000`
);

// Ignore the certificate
process.env['NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED'] = 0;

const response = await fetch('https://ip.oxylabs.io/location', {
  method: 'get',
  agent: agent,
});

console.log(await response.text());

<?php
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://ip.oxylabs.io/location');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, 'https://unblock.oxylabs.io:60000');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, 'YOUR_USERNAME' . ':' . 'YOUR_PASSWORD');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
echo $result;

if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close($ch);

package main

import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
)

func main() {
	const Username = "YOUR_USERNAME"
	const Password = "YOUR_PASSWORD"

	proxyUrl, _ := url.Parse(
		fmt.Sprintf(
			"https://%s:%[email protected]:60000",
			Username,
			Password,
		),
	)
	customTransport := &http.Transport{Proxy: http.ProxyURL(proxyUrl)}

	// Ignore the certificate
	customTransport.TLSClientConfig = &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true}

	client := &http.Client{Transport: customTransport}
	request, _ := http.NewRequest("GET",
		"https://ip.oxylabs.io/location",
		nil,
	)

	response, _ := client.Do(request)

	responseText, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(response.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(responseText))
}

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace OxyApi
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            var webProxy = new WebProxy
            {
                Address = new Uri("https://unblock.oxylabs.io:60000"),
                BypassProxyOnLocal = false,
                UseDefaultCredentials = false,

                Credentials = new NetworkCredential(
                userName: "YOUR_USERNAME",
                password: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
                )
            };

            var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
            {
                Proxy = webProxy,
            };

            // Ignore the certificate
            httpClientHandler.ClientCertificateOptions = ClientCertificateOption.Manual;
            httpClientHandler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback =
                (httpRequestMessage, cert, cetChain, policyErrors) =>
                {
                    return true;
                };


            var client = new HttpClient(handler: httpClientHandler, disposeHandler: true);

            Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location");
            client.BaseAddress = baseUri;

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "");

            var response = await client.SendAsync(requestMessage);
            var contents = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

            Console.WriteLine(contents);
        }
    }
}

package org.example;

import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.RequestConfig;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.auth.CredentialsProviderBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClients;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactoryBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.TrustAllStrategy;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.EntityUtils;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.message.StatusLine;
import org.apache.hc.core5.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Properties;


public class Main {

    public static void main(final String[] args)throws Exception {
        final CredentialsProvider credsProvider = CredentialsProviderBuilder.create()
                .add(new AuthScope("unblock.oxylabs.io", 60000), "USERNAME", "PASSWORD".toCharArray())
                .build();
        final HttpHost target = new HttpHost("https", "ip.oxylabs.io", 443);
        final HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("https", "unblock.oxylabs.io", 60000);
        try (final CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
                .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
                .setProxy(proxy)
                // We recommend accepting our certificate instead of allowing insecure (http) traffic
                .setConnectionManager(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder.create()
                        .setSSLSocketFactory(SSLConnectionSocketFactoryBuilder.create()
                                .setSslContext(SSLContextBuilder.create()
                                        .loadTrustMaterial(TrustAllStrategy.INSTANCE)
                                        .build())
                                .setHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
                                .build())
                        .build())
                .build()) {

            final RequestConfig config = RequestConfig.custom()
                    .build();
            final HttpGet request = new HttpGet("/location");
            request.setConfig(config);

            System.out.println("Executing request " + request.getMethod() + " " + request.getUri() +
                    " via " + proxy + " headers: " + Arrays.toString(request.getHeaders()));

            httpclient.execute(target, request, response -> {
                System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
                System.out.println(request + "->" + new StatusLine(response));
                EntityUtils.consume(response.getEntity());
                return null;
            });
        }
    }
}

If you are observing low success rates or retrieve empty content, please try adding additional "x-oxylabs-render: html" header with your request.

If Web Unblocker is being used to scrape websites dependent on loading data via JavaScript, refer to the JavaScript rendering section. The product is not designed to be used with headless browsers (e.g., Chromium, PhantomJS, Splash, etc.) and their drivers (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, Puppeteer, etc.) directly.

Watch the video below for an example of scraping difficult target without getting blocked:

Lesson

If you want to learn more about getting data on a large scale with Web Unblocker - we suggest watching this Scraping Experts lesson:

Bypassing Sophisticated Anti-Bot Systemsexperts.oxylabs.io

PreviousRate Limits NextMaking Requests

Last updated 14 days ago

Was this helpful?

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace OxyApi
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            var webProxy = new WebProxy
            {
                Address = new Uri("https://unblock.oxylabs.io:60000"),
                BypassProxyOnLocal = false,
                UseDefaultCredentials = false,

                Credentials = new NetworkCredential(
                userName: "YOUR_USERNAME",
                password: "YOUR_PASSWORD"
                )
            };

            var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
            {
                Proxy = webProxy,
            };

            // Ignore the certificate
            httpClientHandler.ClientCertificateOptions = ClientCertificateOption.Manual;
            httpClientHandler.ServerCertificateCustomValidationCallback =
                (httpRequestMessage, cert, cetChain, policyErrors) =>
                {
                    return true;
                };


            var client = new HttpClient(handler: httpClientHandler, disposeHandler: true);

            Uri baseUri = new Uri("https://ip.oxylabs.io/location");
            client.BaseAddress = baseUri;

            var requestMessage = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "");

            var response = await client.SendAsync(requestMessage);
            var contents = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

            Console.WriteLine(contents);
        }
    }
}

package org.example;

import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.auth.CredentialsProvider;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.classic.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.config.RequestConfig;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.auth.CredentialsProviderBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.classic.HttpClients;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.impl.io.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactoryBuilder;
import org.apache.hc.client5.http.ssl.TrustAllStrategy;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.EntityUtils;
import org.apache.hc.core5.http.message.StatusLine;
import org.apache.hc.core5.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Properties;


public class Main {

    public static void main(final String[] args)throws Exception {
        final CredentialsProvider credsProvider = CredentialsProviderBuilder.create()
                .add(new AuthScope("unblock.oxylabs.io", 60000), "USERNAME", "PASSWORD".toCharArray())
                .build();
        final HttpHost target = new HttpHost("https", "ip.oxylabs.io", 443);
        final HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("https", "unblock.oxylabs.io", 60000);
        try (final CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
                .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
                .setProxy(proxy)
                // We recommend accepting our certificate instead of allowing insecure (http) traffic
                .setConnectionManager(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder.create()
                        .setSSLSocketFactory(SSLConnectionSocketFactoryBuilder.create()
                                .setSslContext(SSLContextBuilder.create()
                                        .loadTrustMaterial(TrustAllStrategy.INSTANCE)
                                        .build())
                                .setHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
                                .build())
                        .build())
                .build()) {

            final RequestConfig config = RequestConfig.custom()
                    .build();
            final HttpGet request = new HttpGet("/location");
            request.setConfig(config);

            System.out.println("Executing request " + request.getMethod() + " " + request.getUri() +
                    " via " + proxy + " headers: " + Arrays.toString(request.getHeaders()));

            httpclient.execute(target, request, response -> {
                System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
                System.out.println(request + "->" + new StatusLine(response));
                EntityUtils.consume(response.getEntity());
                return null;
            });
        }
    }
}