vlc --help outputs text with colors which makes it so much easier to skim

jq is sort of like awk but specifically meant for JSON so it should be a lot easier.

If you view the source of the homepage, you’ll see some HTML that starts with this:

<div class="archive-dropdown-wrap">
    <ul class="archive-dropdown">                       
        <li><span class="chapter-label">Issue 1</span><ul><li><a href="https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/">Cover

That’s the HTML for the drop-down. Although if I were you, I’d look into taking advantage of WordPress’ JSON API, since that website uses WordPress.

For example, here’s a list of the images uploaded to the site in JSON format: https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/wp-json/wp/v2/media?per_page=100&page=1 (Limited to 100 entries per page)

Take this with a grain of salt since I haven’t done much scraping (yet; I have a project I just started planning)

I’ve heard you’re more likely to get blocked for using a VPN since some sites will block requests originating from data centers, which is less likely to happen coming from a residential IP address. (Although if you’re already using a VPS, the right proxy may help)

This might be useless advice, but it might just be best to increase (and randomize) the amount of time between requests.

And to answer your question, Mullvad is what I use, and it’s what I see reccomended (from both Reddit, and The Wirecutter) the most often because they store so little of your data, and you can even pay in cash.