Helium Scraper Proxy Integration

Integrating Helium Scraper with Bright Data proxies enhances data extraction capabilities by providing secure and flexible proxy management for reliable and efficient web scraping.

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What is Helium Scraper?

Helium Scraper provides a visual interface that allows users to define the data they want to extract by pointing and clicking on the elements on a webpage. It often includes features like automatic data extraction, data transformation, and the ability to navigate through multiple pages.

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How to setup Helium Scraper with Bright Data proxies:

Setting up Helium Scraper

Download and install Helium Scraper
Launch Helium Scraper and select File → Proxy List
If the list contains any items, press the Clear button

Bright Data proxies and Helium Scraper integration

Go to your Bright Data Dashboard and click Add Zone
Select a network type and press Add Zone
Back in your Bright Data dashboard, choose a Zone name
Take note of your Zone username and password
Switch back to the Helium Scraper proxy list and enter:
- Address: brd.superproxy.io
- Port: 33335
- User Name: Your Zone user name
- Password: Your Zone password
Press OK

Proxy list window showing address, port, username, password.

Bright Data proxies and Helium Scraper integration

Install the Proxy Manager
Click Add new proxy and choose the Zone and settings you require, and click Save
Switch back to Helium Scraper’s proxy list and enter:
- Address: 127.0.0.1
- Port: Your proxy port 24XXX (shown on the Proxy Manager)
- User Name: Leave this blank
- Password: Leave this blank
Press OK

Proxy List window with IP Address and Port fields.

Enabling proxies on a Helium Scraper project

After following the steps above, proxies will be enabled for Helium Scraper and are available for every Helium Scraper project.
To configure any particular project to use the proxies, follow these steps:

Create or load a project by clicking File → New or File →
Select Project → Settings
Under the Proxies category, set Enable Proxies to True and press OK

Settings window with proxy configuration options.

⚠️Important note: If you are using Bright Data’s Residential Proxies, Web Unlocker or SERP API, you need to install an SSL certificate to enable end-to-end secure connections to your target website(s). This is a simple process, see https://docs.brightdata.com/general/account/ssl-certificate#installation-of-the-ssl-certificate for instructions.