Manage Scrapoxy with a GUI¶

Connect¶

You can access to the GUI at http://localhost:8889/

Dashboard¶

Scrapoxy GUI has many pages:

Instances. This page contains the list of instances managed by Scrapoxy;
Stats. This page contains statistics on the use of Scrapoxy.

To login page redirects to the Instances page.

Page: Instances¶

Scaling¶

This panel shows the number of instances.

Scrapoxy has 3 settings:

Min. The desired count of instances when Scrapoxy is asleep;
Max. The desired count of instances when Scrapoxy is awake;
Required. The count of actual instances.

To add or remove an instance, click on the Scaling button and change the Required setting:

Status of an instance¶

Each instance is described in a panel.

This panel contains many information:

Name of the instance;
IP of the instance;
Provider type;
Instance status on the provider;
Instance status in Scrapoxy.

Scrapoxy relays requests to instances which are started and alived ( + ).

Type of provider¶

	AWS / EC2
	OVH Cloud
	DigitalOcean
	VScale

Status in the provider¶

	Starting
	Started
	Stopping
	Stopped

Status in Scrapoxy¶

	Alive
	Dead

Remove an instance¶

Click on the instance to delete it.

The instance stops and is replaced by another.

Page: Stats¶

There are 3 panels in stats:

Global stats. This panel contains global stats;
Requests. This panel contains the count of requests;
Flow. This panel contains the flow requests.

Global¶

This panel has 4 indicators:

the total count of requests to monitor performance;
the total count of received and sent data to control the volume of data;
the total of stop instance orders, to monitor anti-blacklisting;
the count of requests received by an instance (minimum, average, maximum) to check anti-blacklisting performance.

Requests¶

This panel combines 2 statistics on 1 chart.

It measures:

the count of requests per minute;
the average execution time of a request (round trip), per minute.

Flow¶