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Proxychains vs StormCrawler

A side-by-side look at Proxychains and StormCrawler. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Proxychains

Proxychains

Security & Privacy

Proxychains is an open-source proxy tool for Linux and Unix-like systems that forces network traffic through proxy servers. It allows any TCP-based application to use a SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5 or HTTP proxy without needing to configure the application itself.

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StormCrawler

StormCrawler

Development

StormCrawler is an open source web crawler designed to crawl large websites efficiently by scaling horizontally through Apache Storm. It is fault-tolerant and allows integration with other Storm components like machine learning pipelines.

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