4get/docs/configure.md

4get configuation options

Welcome! This guide assumes that you have a working 4get instance. This will help you configure your instance to the best it can be!

Files location

1. The main configuration file is located at data/config.php
2. The proxies are located in data/proxies/*.txt
3. The captcha imagesets are located in data/captcha/your_image_set/*.png
4. The captcha font is located in data/fonts/captcha.ttf

Robots.txt

Make sure you configure this right to optimize your search engine presence! Head over to /robots.txt and change the 4get.ca domain to your own domain.

Server listing

To be listed on https://4get.ca/instances , you must contact any of the people in the server list and ask them to add you to their list of instances in their configuration. The instance list is distributed, and I don't have control over it.

If you see spammy entries in your instances list, simply remove the instance from your list that pushes the offending entries.

Proxies

4get supports rotating proxies for scrapers! Configuring one is really easy.

1. Head over to the proxies folder. Give it any name you want, like myproxy, but make sure it has the txt extension.
2. Add your proxies to the file. Examples:

   # format -> <protocol>:<address>:<port>:<username>:<password>
   # protocol list:
   # raw_ip, http, https, socks4, socks5, socks4a, socks5_hostname
   socks5:1.1.1.1:juicy:cloaca00
   http:1.3.3.7::
   raw_ip::::
   

3. Go to the main configuration file. Then, find which website you want to setup a proxy for.
4. Modify the value false with "myproxy", with quotes included and the semicolon at the end.

Done! The scraper you chose should now be using the rotating proxies. When asking for the next page of results, it will use the same proxy to avoid detection!

Important!

If you ever test out a socks5 proxy locally on your machine and find out it works but doesn't on your server, try supplying the socks5_hostname protocol instead. Hopefully this tip can save you 3 hours of your life!